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Aylett was born in [[London]].<ref>[https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/personal.html Personal stuff] by Aylett, accessed 15 November 2020</ref> She is the mother of writer and activist [[Owen Jones]].<ref name=ack>See the "[https://books.google.com/books?id=gwzQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT318 Acknowledgements]" section of {{cite book|title=This Land: The Story of a Movement|first=Owen|last=Jones|publisher=Penguin|year=2020|isbn=9780141994406}}</ref> She met her husband, union organiser Robert Jones, through their membership in the [[Militant tendency]], a [[Trotskyist]] group within the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Phelim Brady|url=http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/5556|title=Interview: Owen Jones|publisher=Varsity.co.uk|date=8 February 2013|accessdate=26 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928192233/http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/5556|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> He developed [[prostate cancer]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/health/cancer-patients-miss-out-vital-6106939|work=Daily Record|title=Cancer patients miss out on vital drug due to shortage of nurses at Edinburgh hospital|first=Vivienne|last=Aitken|date=21 July 2015}}</ref> and died in 2018.<ref name=ack/> | Aylett was born in [[London]].<ref>[https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/personal.html Personal stuff] by Aylett, accessed 15 November 2020</ref> She is the mother of writer and activist [[Owen Jones]].<ref name=ack>See the "[https://books.google.com/books?id=gwzQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT318 Acknowledgements]" section of {{cite book|title=This Land: The Story of a Movement|first=Owen|last=Jones|publisher=Penguin|year=2020|isbn=9780141994406}}</ref> She met her husband, union organiser Robert Jones, through their membership in the [[Militant tendency]], a [[Trotskyist]] group within the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Phelim Brady|url=http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/5556|title=Interview: Owen Jones|publisher=Varsity.co.uk|date=8 February 2013|accessdate=26 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928192233/http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/5556|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> He developed [[prostate cancer]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/health/cancer-patients-miss-out-vital-6106939|work=Daily Record|title=Cancer patients miss out on vital drug due to shortage of nurses at Edinburgh hospital|first=Vivienne|last=Aitken|date=21 July 2015}}</ref> and died in 2018.<ref name=ack/> | ||
As a political activist, Aylett has advocated for the Labour Party,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-im-voting-labour-ruth-aylett-poet-professor-activist|newspaper=[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]|title=Election 2019: Why I'm voting Labour: Ruth Aylett, poet, professor, activist|date=3 December 2019}}</ref> for improved labour security for university staff,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/22/we-refuse-to-act-as-external-examiners-until-universities-deal-with-staffing-issues|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 January 2020|department=Letters|title=We refuse to act as external examiners until universities deal with staffing issues}}</ref> for permanent residency for [[European Union]] citizens already in the UK at the time of [[Brexit]],<ref name=stay>{{cite news|newspaper=LabourList|title=Labour activists urge Starmer to back 'right to stay' for EU citizens campaign|url=https://labourlist.org/2020/09/labour-activists-urge-starmer-to-back-right-to-stay-for-eu-citizens-campaign/|date=8 September 2020}}</ref> for [[academic freedom]] for faculty and students in the face of the 'Counter-terrorism and security bill' legislation by signing a letter claiming the bill ran counter to universities mission to foster free speech as well as being 'unenforceable' and 'unlawful',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/02/counter-terrorism-security-bill-threat-freedom-of-speech-universities|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities|date=2 February 2015}}</ref> as well as support for [[transgender rights]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/17472564.not-speak-us-feminists-hit-back-trans-exclusionary-activists-open-letter/|newspaper=The National|title=They do not speak for us: Feminists hit back at trans-exclusionary activists in open letter|date=3 March 2019}}</ref> She has served as one of the leaders of the Labour Party in [[Edinburgh Southern (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh Southern]].<ref name=stay/> | As a political activist, Aylett has advocated for the Labour Party,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-im-voting-labour-ruth-aylett-poet-professor-activist|newspaper=[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]|title=Election 2019: Why I'm voting Labour: Ruth Aylett, poet, professor, activist|date=3 December 2019}}</ref> for improved labour security for university staff,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/22/we-refuse-to-act-as-external-examiners-until-universities-deal-with-staffing-issues|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 January 2020|department=Letters|title=We refuse to act as external examiners until universities deal with staffing issues}}</ref> for permanent residency for [[European Union]] citizens already in the UK at the time of [[Brexit]],<ref name=stay>{{cite news|newspaper=LabourList|title=Labour activists urge Starmer to back 'right to stay' for EU citizens campaign|url=https://labourlist.org/2020/09/labour-activists-urge-starmer-to-back-right-to-stay-for-eu-citizens-campaign/|date=8 September 2020}}</ref> for [[academic freedom]] for faculty and students in the face of the 'Counter-terrorism and security bill' legislation by signing a letter claiming the bill ran counter to universities' mission to foster free speech as well as being 'unenforceable' and 'unlawful',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/02/counter-terrorism-security-bill-threat-freedom-of-speech-universities|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities|date=2 February 2015}}</ref> as well as support for [[transgender rights]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/17472564.not-speak-us-feminists-hit-back-trans-exclusionary-activists-open-letter/|newspaper=The National|title=They do not speak for us: Feminists hit back at trans-exclusionary activists in open letter|date=3 March 2019}}</ref> She has served as one of the leaders of the Labour Party in [[Edinburgh Southern (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh Southern]].<ref name=stay/> | ||
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Ruth S. Aylett (born 1951)[1] is a British author, computer scientist, professor, poet[2][3] and political activist. She is a professor of computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where she specialises in affective computing, social computing, software agents, and human–robot interaction.[4]
Research
Aylett's research involves affective computing, social computing, software agents, and human–robot interaction. She is the leader of Socially Competent Robots (SoCoRo), a project of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council that studies whether robots can assist autistic people in learning to recognize facial expressions and other social cues.[5]
She has also studied the use of "emotionally literate" robots for tutoring schoolchildren,[6] developed interactive role-playing software intended to combat bullying,[7] and performed with a robot poet named Sarah the Poetic Robot as part of the Edinburgh Free Fringe.[3][8]
Education and career
Aylett earned a degree in mathematical economics at the London School of Economics, and began her career in computing by working in technical support at International Computers Limited for three years, before moving to the University of Sheffield to work in computing and robotics. She became a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University for five years, and then moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1989, as part of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute there. She moved again to the University of Salford in 1992, first as part of the IT Institute there and later in the Centre for Virtual Environments. There, she became Professor of Intelligent Virtual Environments in 2000. In 2004, she moved to her present position at Heriot-Watt University.[4]
Publications
Aylett's book Robots: Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life? (2002) is a historical exploration on robots, on the history of robotics, and on research problems confronting roboticists. Aimed at high-school age students, it consists of a sequence of two-page illustrated spreads on each of its topics.[9]
She is the coauthor, with Judy Robertson, Lisa Gjedde, Rose Luckin and Paul Brna, of the self-published book Inside Stories: A Narrative Journey (2008), on the use of story-telling in education and the use of technology to assist in storytelling.[10]
Aylett is also the coauthor of the poetry pamphlet Handfast: Poetry Duets with Beth McDonough (Mothers Milk, 2016). It has a challenge-response format, in which a poem by one of the authors inspires a poem by the other author exploring the same theme.[3][11]
Aylett co-authored Inside DAMMA: the Department of Applied Meta-Magical Anthropology with Morag Burgon-Lyon, Greg Michaelson and Judy Robertson (Read Fiction, 2023). This satire on contemporary University life was written as part of a project on facilitating academic research cooperation. [12]
Equinox (Stairwell, 2023) was also co-authored with Greg Michaelson. This Science Fiction/Fantasy, written during lockdown, is about how an attempt to extract free energy from beneath Rannoch Moor breaks the multi-verse and angers the witches from Macbeth. [13]
Family and politics
Aylett was born in London.[14] She is the mother of writer and activist Owen Jones.[15] She met her husband, union organiser Robert Jones, through their membership in the Militant tendency, a Trotskyist group within the Labour Party.[16] He developed prostate cancer,[17] and died in 2018.[15]
As a political activist, Aylett has advocated for the Labour Party,[18] for improved labour security for university staff,[19] for permanent residency for European Union citizens already in the UK at the time of Brexit,[20] for academic freedom for faculty and students in the face of the 'Counter-terrorism and security bill' legislation by signing a letter claiming the bill ran counter to universities' mission to foster free speech as well as being 'unenforceable' and 'unlawful',[21] as well as support for transgender rights.[22] She has served as one of the leaders of the Labour Party in Edinburgh Southern.[20]
References
External links
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