Henry Lieberman
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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.
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 seminal contributions include prototype object systems and the first real-time garbage collection 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).
Dr. Lieberman has a bachelors degree from MIT in mathematics (Course 18) and a a doctoral-equivalent degree (Habilitation) from the University of Paris VI and was a Visiting Professor there in 1989-90.
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
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.
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
Seymour Papert
Seymour Papert is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language....
and Carl Hewitt
Carl Hewitt
Carl Hewitt is Board Chair of the International Society for Inconsistency Robustness. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and the University of Keio. In 2000, he became emeritus in the EECS department at MIT....
. His early contributions to computer science includes work on the programming language Logo
Logo (programming language)
Logo is a multi-paradigm computer programming language used in education. It is an adaptation and dialect of the Lisp language; some have called it Lisp without the parentheses. It was originally conceived and written as functional programming language, and drove a mechanical turtle as an output...
, as well as the first attempt at using bitmap and color graphics in programming languages. Some of his seminal contributions include prototype object systems and the first real-time garbage collection 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).
Dr. Lieberman has a bachelors degree from MIT in mathematics (Course 18) and a a doctoral-equivalent degree (Habilitation) from the University of Paris VI and was a Visiting Professor there in 1989-90.