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I am a professor in  the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, currently on sabbatical at KTH in Stockholm.  I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, after previously doing a PhD in sixteenth-century Mexican social history at the University of Michigan and teaching history at Smith. I worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories -- Research from 1985-2003 as a Member of Technical Staff and a Department Head, starting the Human-Computer Interface Research Department there.   I served as editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics from 1993-2003 and was an editor-in-chief of Speech Communication from 2003-2006. I was on the Executive Board of ACL from 1993-2003, have been on the Permanent Council for the Organisation of International Conferences on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) since 1996, served on the board the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 1999-2007 (as President 2005-2007). I have been a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence since 1994 and a fellow of ISCA since 2008.

Julia Hirschberg
Professor, Computer Science

Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
1214 Amsterdam Avenue
M/C 0401
450 CS Building
New York, NY 10027

email: julia@cs.columbia.edu
phone: (212) 939-7114

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