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And here's a brief biography:

Martha E. Pollack was born and raised in Stamford, CT.  She received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1979, completing a self-designed major in linguistics, and along the way taking as many math courses as a math major.  After a brief stint in industry teaching IT at Blue Cross of MA, she returned to school to obtain her M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 and 1986, respectively.  Her dissertation on automated question-answering earned the Rubinoff Dissertation Prize.

Her first professional position was at the AI Center at SRI International, where she worked from 1985-1991.  From 1991-2000, she was Associate and then full Professor of the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Computer Science and the Intelligent Systems Program, where she also served as Director from 1998-2000.   In Sept. 2000, she became Professor of Computer Science and Engineering within the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan and she was Associate Chair for Computer Science and Engineering from 2004 to 2007.  In Aug. 2007 She became Dean of the University of Michigan's School of Information.

Pollack's research has been in the area of Artificial Intelligence, with a focus both on foundational  and algorithmic issues (automated plan generation,  constraint-based temporal reasoning, adaptive interfaces, natural-language processing) as well as on applications of AI to the design of assistive technology for people with cognitive impairment, a topic on which she has testified before the United States Senate Subcommitee on Aging.  The author or co-author of more than 100 research papers, Pollack is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and a recipient of the Computers and Thought Award (1991), an NSF Young Investigator's Award (1992), and the Univ. of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award (2000).  She was program chair for IJCAI-97,  is or has been on the editorial boards of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, AI Magazine, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and Computational Linguistics, and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2001-2005.   She is currently President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a member of Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate.

Pollack has also been active in efforts to increase the representation of and climate for women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering fields, including significant participation in the University of Michigan's ADVANCE program, as a member of the STRIDE committee and the Advisory Board.

Pollack lives in Ann Arbor with her family; she and her husband have a daughter who is a student at the University of Michigan and a son in high school.