Martha E. Pollack

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Martha Elizabeth Pollack (born August 27, 1958 in Stamford , Connecticut ) is an American computer scientist.

Pollack studied linguistics at Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in 1979 and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania with a master's degree and doctorate in 1986 with Bonnie Webber (and Barbara Grosz ) ( Inferring domain plans in question answering ). From 1985 to 1992 she was at SRI International , from 1991 Associate Professor and from 1999 Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (from 1998 Director of the Intelligent Systems Program) and from 2000 Professor at the University of Michigan , where she was Dean of the School from 2007 to 2010 of Information and 2013 Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs. In 2017 she became President of Cornell University .

It deals with artificial intelligence , specifically automated planning, processing of natural languages, temporal logic, expert systems and constraint satisfaction and applications for people with cognitive problems (such as dementia), for example for diagnosis from everyday observations.

In 1991 she received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award . She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the AAAI , of which she was President in 2009/10. In 1997 she was the Program Chair of the IJCAI (and thus editor of the Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

From 2001 to 2005 she edited the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research .

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  1. ↑ Martha E. Pollack in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Pollack, Martha E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollack, Martha Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stamford , Connecticut