Barbara Grosz

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Barbara Grosz

Barbara Jean Grosz (born July 21, 1948 in Philadelphia ) is an American computer scientist who deals with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

She studied mathematics at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and at the University of California, Berkeley , with a master's degree in 1971 and a doctorate in computer science with Martin Graham in 1977 (The Representation and Use of Focus in Dialogue Understanding). From 1973 she researched AI at SRI International , where she became Senior Computer Scientist in 1981 and Program Director Natural Language and Representation in 1982 . From 1983 to 1986 she led a joint research project between SRI International and Stanford University on natural language processing, was Senior Staff Scientist at SRI International and in 1984/85 Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford. From 1986 she was Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. There she was also Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001 to 2011) and has been the Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences there since 2001.

She was visiting professor and visiting scholar at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Brown University.

She did fundamental work on natural language processing and multi-agent systems . She developed early computer dialogue systems and founded the research field of computer-aided modeling of discourse. In the field of multi-agent systems, she investigated models of collaboration with applications on collaborative interfaces, for example in health care (communication and planning in collaboration between doctors and patients).

In 2015 she received the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence , in 2008 the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award ( for fundamental contributions to research in the field of natural language processing and multi-agent systems and her leadership role in the field of artificial intelligence and her role in the Founding and managing interdisciplinary institutions ) and in 2001 the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award . From 1989 to 1991 she was on the Board of Trustees of the IJCAI and was Conference Chair.

She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society , Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), of which she was President from 1993 to 1995 Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • Collaborative Systems (AAAI Presidential Address), AI Magazine, Vol. 17, 1996, No. 2, pp. 67-85
  • with Sarit Kraus : Collaborative Plans for Complex Group Action, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 86, 1996, pp. 269-357
  • with CR Perrault: Natural Language Interfaces, Annual Review of Computer Science, Volume 1, 1986, pp. 47-82
  • Discourse Knowledge, in Donald Walker (Ed.), Understanding Spoken Language, North Holland 1978, pp. 229-355
  • with FC Perreira (Ed.), Natural Language Processing, MIT Press 1994

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Barbara Grosz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Grosz, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grosz, Barbara Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia