Barbara J. Grosz
Barbara J. Grosz CorrFRSE (Philadelphia, July 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University.[2] She has made seminal contributions to the fields of natural language processing and multi-agent systems. With Alison Simmons, she is co-founder of the Embedded EthiCS programme at Harvard, which embeds ethics lessons into computer science courses.
Barbara Grosz
- AAAI Fellow (1990)
- ACM Fellow (2004)
- ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award (2008)
- CorrFRSE (2014)
- IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2015)
ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)
The Representation and Use of Focus in Dialogue Understanding (1977)
Grosz was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for pioneering research in natural language communication between humans and computers and its application to human-computer interaction.
Education[edit]
Grosz earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University in 1969, and master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 and 1977, respectively.