Barbara J. Grosz

Barbara Grosz
Barbara Grosz
Born	Barbara Jean Grosz; July 21, 1948; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley; Cornell University;
Awards	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);
	Scientific career
Fields	Artificial Intelligence; Natural language processing; Multi-agent systems;
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. 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.

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