Julia Hirschberg is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1985-2003 she worked at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs, working on intonation assignment in text-to-speech synthesis and then as Head of the Human Computer Interaction Research Department. Her research focuses on prosody in speech generation and understanding. She currently works on speech summarization, recognizing and understanding varieties of speaker state (emotional, charismatic, deceptive), and dialogue prosody. Hirschberg is President of the International Speech Communication Association and co-editor-in-chief of Speech Communication. She was editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics and on the board of the Association for Computational Linguistics from 1993-2003. She has been a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence since 1994. 2006. Agustin Gravano and Julia Hirschberg ``Effect of Genre, Speaker, and Word Class on the Realization of Given and New Information,'' INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh. 2006. Jennifer Venditti, Jackson Liscombe, and Julia Hirschberg, ``Intonational Cues to Student Questions in Tutoring Dialogs,'' INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh. 2005. Andrew Rosenberg and Julia Hirschberg, ``Acoustic/Prosodic and Lexical Correlates of Charismatic Speech,'' EUROSPEECH 2005, September. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~julia