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| Born | Barbara Jean Grosz July 21, 1948[1] |
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| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Representation and Use of Focus in Dialogue Understanding (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin H. Graham |
| Doctoral students | Martha E. Pollack |
| Other notable students | Steven Salzberg |
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.
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.
- ^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ "Radcliffe Institute Dean Barbara Grosz Will Step Down". Harvard Magazine. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2014.