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J.J. and E.J. Gibson. 103
While J.J. Gibson is very well-known, his wife Jackie (E.J. Gibson) is also a prominent
cognitive psychologist. They met when he began teaching at Smith College, where
she was a student. She raised a family, finished a PhD, and publishes well-respected
studies on learning. At least two of the Gibson’s students followed their husband-
wife teaming: Herb Pick was a student of J.J. Gibson, while his wife, Anne Pick, was
a student of E.J. Gibson. The Picks are at the University of Minnesota, and Herb Pick
has been active in the mobile robotics community.

Susan Calvin, robopsychologist.
Isaac Asimov’s robot stories often feature Dr. Susan Calvin, the first robopsycholo-
gist. In the stories, Calvin is often the only person who can figure out the complex
interactions of concurrent behaviors leading to a robot’s emergent misbehavior. In
some regards, Calvin is the embarrassing Cold War stereotype of a woman scientist:
severe, unmarried, toofocused on work tobeableto makesmall talk.