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== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Jeanne Dietsch grew up in [[Marion, Ohio]], with her parents and three brothers.
Jeanne Dietsch grew up in [[Marion, Ohio]], with her parents and three brothers. She attended Marion Harding High School, from which she graduated in 1970.


Dietsch attended [[Western Michigan University]], where she graduated with a B.S. in 1974. She moved to [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], and married [[Bill Kennedy (computer scientist)|Bill Kennedy]] in the same year. The couple have two children, Eva and Ethan.<ref>Allen L. Potts, ''Our Family: History of Weist and Other Related Families'', 1997, p.190</ref> The two later founded ActivMedia Robotics (MobileRobots Inc) together in 1995.
Dietsch attended [[Western Michigan University]], where she graduated with a B.S. in 1974. She moved to [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], and married [[Bill Kennedy (computer scientist)|Bill Kennedy]] in the same year. The couple have two children, Eva and Ethan.<ref>Allen L. Potts, ''Our Family: History of Weist and Other Related Families'', 1997, p.190</ref> The two later founded ActivMedia Robotics (MobileRobots Inc) together in 1995.

Revision as of 17:41, 25 December 2020

Jeanne Dietsch
Member of the New Hampshire Senate
from the 9th district
In office
December 6, 2018 – December 2, 2020
Preceded byAndy Sanborn
Succeeded byDenise Ricciardi
Personal details
Born (1952-04-16) April 16, 1952 (age 72)
Kenton, Ohio, US
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseBill Kennedy
Children2
Alma materHarvard Kennedy School of Government
ProfessionFormer tech entrepreneur, economic development

Jeanne Dietsch (born April 16, 1952) served as a Democratic member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 9th district from 2018 to 2020. Prior to joining the legislature, Jeanne Dietsch was a tech entrepreneur. She co-founded MobileRobots Inc/ActivMedia Robotics in 1995, and also served as its Chief Executive Officer until the company was sold in 2010 to Adept Technology in Silicon Valley.[1][2] Under her leadership, MobileRobots' Pioneer became the launch platform for Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio[citation needed]. The company is now owned by Omron Automation.[3]

Personal life

Jeanne Dietsch grew up in Marion, Ohio, with her parents and three brothers. She attended Marion Harding High School, from which she graduated in 1970.

Dietsch attended Western Michigan University, where she graduated with a B.S. in 1974. She moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and married Bill Kennedy in the same year. The couple have two children, Eva and Ethan.[4] The two later founded ActivMedia Robotics (MobileRobots Inc) together in 1995.

PatrolBot watches MobileRobots founder Jeanne Dietsch

Tech career

Jeanne Dietsch began her entrepreneurial career at age 29 as president of an Oak Park, Illinois, market research venture, TALMIS, co-owned with Patrick Joseph McGovern of International Data Group.[citation needed] The company studied the burgeoning market for personal computers and software in schools and homes.[5][6] After selling that start-up and moving to Peterborough, New Hampshire, she and her husband started Kinemation, a software development company, whose games included Intrigue! published by Spectrum HoloByte.[7][failed verification]

Dietsch started her next company by publishing an e-commerce market report, "Who's Succeeding on the Internet and How", months after the Internet opened to the public for commerce.

Later in 1995, Dietsch co-founded the enterprise that would become ActivMedia Robotics. For 16 years, her team designed and built complex systems underlying the autonomous programmable intelligent mobile robotic bases and control systems for autonomous interior mapping and navigation, including multiple patents.[8][9] Some of their research was funded through a US National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant.[10] The couple sold MobileRobots Inc to Adept Technology in 2010.[11]

Dietsch also served on the board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Industrial Activities committee[12] and wrote a quarterly column for Robotics & Automation magazine[citation needed]. She served on the review board of Industrial Robot journal and the editorial board of Intelligent Service Robotics Journal and helped found the Robotics Technology Consortium.[13] She also directs non-profit Sapiens Plurum[14] which, in conjunction with the Future of Life Institute, runs an annual short-fiction contest to "inspire us — the first species that can intentionally impact its own evolution — to aspire beyond what was humanly possible."[15]

Government career

Dietsch was a member strategic planning for the Peterborough Economic Development Authority.[16] Dietsch ran for State Senate in New Hampshire in 2016, losing in the primary to Lee Nyquist.

In 2018, Dietsch won 54% of votes in the Democratic primary. She later won the general election against Republican Dan Hynes, 14,037 to 12,776.[17] Dietsch serves as Vice Chair of the Senate Education and Workforce Development Committee and Chair of the Commission on the Environmental and Health Impacts of Perfluorinated Chemicals.[18] She is also a member of the Ways and Means Committee, the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules and the Business Finance Authority.[citation needed]

Positions

Dietsch has been a proponent of an income tax. In 2019, Dietsch was the sponsor for a last minute amendment, to an unrelated bill dealing with using cell phones while driving, which would have added a 6.2% payroll tax on high wage earners.[19][20]

In June of 2020, Dietsch came under fire for comments made at a House Education Committee Meeting while debating a bill on school choice, where she argued that only well-educated parents can make decisions on what is best for their child.[21][22][23]

Publications and presentations

References

  1. ^ "Market Potential Drives Adept Acquisition of MobileRobots". Robotics Business Review. 2010-06-25.
  2. ^ Mitchell, Robert L. (2005-10-10). "Robots Move Into Corporate Roles". Computerworld. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  3. ^ "Omron Adept Mobile Robots". D&B Hoovers. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  4. ^ Allen L. Potts, Our Family: History of Weist and Other Related Families, 1997, p.190
  5. ^ Severo, Richard (1984-12-10). "Computer Makers Find Rich Market in Schools". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  6. ^ "Data Management". 1984.
  7. ^ AppleAdventures (17 April 2015). "Intrigue! walkthrough/longplay (Apple II - Kinemation/Spectrum Holobyte)" – via YouTube.
  8. ^ "Jeanne Dietsch Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  9. ^ Sinclair, Ken (May 2004). "Interview - Jeanne Dietsch CEO, ActivMedia Robotics". www.automatedbuildings.com. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  10. ^ "Safety-Sensing Independence-Enhancing Wheelchair". SBIR.gov. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  11. ^ https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/865415/000117184310001097/newsrelease.htm
  12. ^ "Industrial Activity Board (IAB) Sukhan Lee VP for IAB IEEE RAS AdCom. Sendai, Japan, ppt download". slideplayer.com. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  13. ^ "Jeanne Dietsch: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. 2019-02-28. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28.
  14. ^ "Looking out for humankind in an increasingly automated world". Sapiens plurum - the wisdom of many. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  15. ^ "Sapiens Plurum: Looking out for humankind". Sapiens plurum - the wisdom of many. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  16. ^ "Economic Development Authority". www.townofpeterborough.com.
  17. ^ "New Hampshire State Senate District 9". Ballotpedia.
  18. ^ http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/statstudcomm/details.aspx?id=1495&rbl=1&drplegislator=9402. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ^ "New Hampshire Senate panel puts an end to tax on higher-wage earners". NH Business Review. 2019-05-22. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  20. ^ Leader, DAVE SOLOMON New Hampshire Union. "Senate quickly kills proposed income tax on high wage earners". UnionLeader.com. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  21. ^ "NH Dem Senator: Working-class parents don't have intelligence to oversee their kids' educations". Lowell Sun. 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  22. ^ Leader, Kevin Landrigan New Hampshire Union. "Dem's comments put Senate Dist. 9 seat in GOP's sights". UnionLeader.com. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  23. ^ "N.H. Dem Senator: School Choice 'Great if the Parent Is Well-Educated' But Shouldn't Be Available to Everyone". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
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