MITRE's Jill Drury Named a Mass High Tech "Woman to Watch"

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BEDFORD, Mass., March 19, 2010 — MITRE's Jill Drury has been named as one of Mass High Tech magazine's 11 "Women to Watch" for 2010 in the New England technical community for her work in military command and control and human-robot interaction.

This is the seventh year that Mass High Tech has compiled a "Women to Watch" list. The award was created to honor women who have made inroads in high-tech fields including biotechnology, robotics, software and clean tech. "As inventors, entrepreneurs, mentors and community leaders, they are viewed as future leaders in their respective fields," the magazine's editors said in a statement on the award. The honorees were profiled in the March 17 issue of Mass High Tech and were recognized at an event scheduled for March 19.

Drury has worked at MITRE since 1980. Today she is associate department head of the company's Collaboration and Multimedia Department, which works to bring tools like translingual instant messaging and chat to warfighters in the field. Drury's knowledge of robotics and military command and control has coincided with increasing interest in the defense community in using robots to perform such dangerous tasks as finding and defusing improvised explosive devices.

Drury also serves as an adjunct professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. She has also served as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Humans and Automation Laboratory.

"Jill has an impressive record of accomplishments in applied research and in innovations in human-system interfaces to robots and unmanned aerial vehicles," said Robert Nesbit, senior vice president and general manager of MITRE's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. "We are fortunate to have her as a colleague and are honored by this public recognition of her work."

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