Henry Lieberman is an American computer scientist at the
MIT
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CSAIL
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in the fields of programming languages, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He received the 2018 ACM Impact Award Intelligent User Interaction for work on mining affect from text and has been applied to the problem of prevention of cyberbullying. He has been a principal research scientist at the Media Lab and Director of the Software Agents Research group.
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
Seymour Aubrey Papert (; 29 February 1928 – 31 July 2016) was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT. He was one of the pioneers of artificia ...
and
Carl Hewitt
Carl Eddie Hewitt () is an American computer scientist who designed the Planner programming language for automated planningCarl Hewitt''PLANNER: A Language for Proving Theorems in Robots''IJCAI. 1969. and the actor model of concurrent computa ...
. His early contributions to computer science includes work on the programming language
Logo
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, 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, and the first real-time
garbage collection
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill. Waste collection also includes the curbside collection of recyclabl ...
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 . algorithms in programming languages. His recent work at the MIT Media Lab has centered around the field of
commonsense reasoning
In artificial intelligence (AI), commonsense reasoning is a human-like ability to make presumptions about the type and essence of ordinary situations humans encounter every day. These assumptions include judgments about the nature of physical objec ...
for user interaction as well as programming by examples. He has edited or co-edited 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). His book, 'Why Can't We All Just Get Along', focuses on the use of game theory to show cooperation pays off more than competition.
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.
Selected works
* Henry Lieberman and
Carl E. Hewitt (1983)
''A Real-Time Garbage Collector Based on the Lifetimes of Objects''Communications of the ACM, 26(6).
* Dieter Fensel, James Hendler, Henry Lieberman, and Wolfgang Wahlster (Eds.), Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press, 2003, http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=8A85C440-EC5D-4FFB-995E-6EB7672BFB07&ttype=2&tid=9182.
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External links
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists