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Spotlight On Barbara J. Grosz -
Barbara J. Grosz is Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at the
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and dean of
the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Recently she was awarded the Allen Newell Award from the Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM)/Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Grosz was recognized for her contributions to natural language
processing, the study of the basic structures and processes by which
people use natural languages to communicate, and her more recent
research on the development of multi-agent systems, "smart" and
adaptable computer algorithms that collaborate with each other or with their human users.
Website: http://women.acm.org/newsletter_v02.01.pdf
Posted on: 07/24/2009