Jay Earley is an American computer scientist and psychologist. He invented the

Earley parser In computer science, the Earley parser is an algorithm for parsing strings that belong to a given context-free language, though (depending on the variant) it may suffer problems with certain nullable grammars. The algorithm, named after its in ...

in his early career in computer science. Later he became a clinical psychologist specializing in group therapy and

Internal Family Systems Therapy The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonali ...

(IFS), including working with the

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. He has created the Pattern System, a personality system, and Self-Therapy Journey, a web application for psychological healing and behavior change.

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