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Barbara Grosz
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Barbara Grosz

Barbara J

1948 – presentU.S.AContribution: 1986

Introduction

Barbara Grosz (born 1948) is an American computer scientist and a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence and natural language processing. She has made significant contributions to the study of discourse processing and collaborative multi-agent systems. Grosz's work has advanced our understanding of human-computer interaction and communication in intelligent systems.

Key Achievement

Created the first computational model of discourse, establishing the field of research and influencing language-processing technologies; developed SharedPlans model for collaboration in multi-agent systems

Biography

Barbara J. Grosz CorrFRSE is an American computer scientist and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University. 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.

Awards

AAAI Fellow1990
ACM Fellow2003
ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award2008
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh2014
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence2015
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Institutions

Harvard University

Santa Fe Institute

Education

Cornell University

University of California, Berkeley