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Stuart Shieber

  • 2006–2007
  • Engineering & Computer Science
  • Benjamin White Whitney Scholar
  • Harvard University
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Stuart Shieber is the James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science.

While at the Radcliffe Institute, Shieber will study computational techniques for describing the fine-grained relations between languages, such as translations between constructions in different languages and the representation in logic of a word or phrase. Such techniques can serve as the mathematical foundation for a wide variety of applications such as machine translation, natural-language interfaces, and speech recognition.

Shieber received an AB in applied mathematics summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1989. He was given a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, and was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1993, one of only thirty in the country in all areas of science and engineering. At Harvard, he has been awarded two honorary chairs: the John L. Loeb Associate Professorship in Natural Sciences in 1993 and the Harvard College Professorship in 2001. He was named a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2004.

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