Meriem Hcini
Intern
Email: mhcini@iastate.edu
College:The College of William and Mary
Major(s):Neuroscience
Classification:Junior
Research Team:Intent Prediction

Robots are going to take over humanity. That's right, I said it. However, this saying has always invoked a negative connotation. Ideas of human annihilation and human redundancy, however I see it as a challenge. We're taught to think of advancement of technology as limitless. Without countless movie franchise always expanding the imagination of what our possibilities are, our only  obstacle is us. With knowledge never expanding from the same school of thought, we cannot rely on once in a lifetime mathematicians and scientists to help expand our horizons. So we create this challenge to always strive for improvement, and technology is our way to go. How can we get hover crafts? By creating computer programming that maps out gravitational fields that help us understand how defy gravity (or something like that, I'm totally ball‐parking here). How can we diagnose someone before they ever have one symptom of a life‐threatening disease or cancer, by using technology that makes predictions base on your genome, etc. I'm trying to say technology is a future we can't afford to live without. This is why I want to get a foot in the game and learn more about emerging interfaces at Iowa State University. I have experience with programming in Python, however I have this internal need to do more. I want to be able to bridge the gap between imagination and reality by learning and creating greater infrastructures that support the human‐technology interface. I'm passionate about our future as a whole, not part by part. I want to be part of a movement where technology we create is sustainable and works towards the betterment of humanity (and not the replacement of it.)