Henry Lieberman has been a manufacturer of fine intellectual property for the last 40 years. He is Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), and has been Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, running the Software Agents Group. He is trying to make computers less stupid and frustrating than they are now, through the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). He has contributed to information overload by authoring more than 120 scientific papers and three books (before this one). His research has impacted software on nearly every computer in the world. Nerds will be impressed that he invented real-time memory management, which made today's dynamic memory programming languages like Java, Python, and others possible. He is known for originating prototype object systems, found today in languages like Javascript. He has also been a pioneer in topics like programming by example and commonsense reasoning in AI. He has a BS in mathematics from MIT and an HDR (PhD-equivalent) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he was also a Visiting Professor. He has long collaborated with Fry on programming environments, debugging, AI, and several startups.
