Henry Lieberman
Henry Lieberman is an American computer scientist at the MIT Media Lab in the fields of programming languages, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He serves as a principal research scientist at the Media Lab and is the Director of the Software Agents Research group, which explores the intersection between artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.
Career
Dr. Lieberman was a research scientist from 1972-87 at the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, working with influential computer scientists such as Seymour Papert and Carl Hewitt. His early contributions to computer science includes work on the programming language Logo, as well as the first attempt at using bitmap and color graphics in programming languages. Some of his contributions include prototype object systems, the concept of delegation,[1] and the first real-time garbage collection[2] algorithms in programming languages. His recent work at the MIT Media Lab has centered around the field of commonsense reasoning for user interaction as well as programming by examples. He has authored or co-authored three books, including End-User Development (Springer, 2006), Spinning the Semantic Web (MIT Press, 2004), and Your Wish is My Command: Programming by Example (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001).
Education
Dr. Lieberman has a bachelor's degree from MIT in mathematics (Course 18) and a doctoral-equivalent degree (Habilitation) from the University of Paris VI and was a Visiting Professor there in 1989-90.
References
- ↑ Lieberman, Henry (1986). "Using prototypical objects to implement shared behavior in object-oriented systems". Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications. Portland. pp. 214–223. ISSN 0362-1340.
- ↑ , Henry Lieberman and Carl Hewitt. 1983. A real-time garbage collector based on the lifetimes of objects. Commun. ACM 26, 6 (June 1983), 419-429. DOI=10.1145/358141.358147 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/358141.358147 .