Johanna Moore

Johanna Doris Moore is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist whose research publications include contributions to natural language generation, spoken dialogue systems, computational models of discourse, intelligent tutoring and training systems, human-computer interaction, user modeling and knowledge representation. She received a BS in mathematics and computer science summa cum laude in 1980, an MS in computer science in 1982 and a PhD in 1989, all from UCLA, with William Swartout and Gerald Estrin as advisors. She held posts at UCLA, at the USC Information Sciences Institute and at the University of Pittsburgh before taking the Chair in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in 1998, where she directed the Human Communication Research Centre, was head of the School of Informatics from 2014 to 2018 and instigated the Blockchain Technology Laboratory in 2016. She was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2004, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003.