Biography:Barbara Hayes-Roth

Short description: American computer scientist

Barbara Hayes-Roth is an American computer scientist and psychologist whose research in artificial intelligence includes work on knowledge acquisition, automated planning and scheduling, spatial cognition, the blackboard system, adaptation, and intelligent behavior in interactive storytelling. She is a senior research scientist and lecturer in computer science at Stanford University.

Education and career

Hayes-Roth majored in psychology at Boston University, graduating magna cum laude in 1971. She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study in psychology, earning a master's degree in 1973 and completing her Ph.D. in 1974. Her dissertation, Interactions in the Acquisition and Utilization of Structured Knowledge, was supervised by James Greeno.

She became a researcher at Bell Laboratories from 1974 to 1976, and at the RAND Corporation from 1976 to 1982, also holding a position as consulting assistant professor in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She became a senior research scientist and lecturer at Stanford in 1982.

Selected publications

A. Thorndyke, Perry W.; Hayes-Roth, Barbara (January 1979), "The use of schemata in the acquisition and transfer of knowledge", Cognitive Psychology 11 (1): 82–106, doi:10.1016/0010-0285(79)90005-7 

B. Hayes-Roth, Barbara (October 1979), "A cognitive model of planning", Cognitive Science 3 (4): 275–310, doi:10.1016/s0364-0213(79)80010-5 

C. Thorndyke, Perry W.; Hayes-Roth, Barbara (October 1982), "Differences in spatial knowledge acquired from maps and navigation", Cognitive Psychology 14 (4): 560–589, doi:10.1016/0010-0285(82)90019-6, PMID 7140211 

D. Hayes-Roth, Barbara (July 1985), "A blackboard architecture for control", Artificial Intelligence 26 (3): 251–321, doi:10.1016/0004-3702(85)90063-3 

E. Hayes-Roth, Barbara (January 1995), "An architecture for adaptive intelligent systems", Artificial Intelligence 72 (1–2): 329–365, doi:10.1016/0004-3702(94)00004-k 

F. Hayes-Roth, Barbara; van Gent, Robert; Huber, Daniel (1997), "Acting in character", Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors: Towards Autonomous Personality Agents, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1195, Springer, pp. 92–112, doi:10.1007/bfb0030573, ISBN 978-3-540-62735-7 

Recognition

Hayes-Roth was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991.