Barbara Hayes-Roth

Barbara Hayes-Roth is an American computer scientist and psychologist whose research in artificial intelligence includes work on knowledge acquisition,^[A] automated planning and scheduling,^[B] spatial cognition,^[C] the blackboard system,^[D] adaptation,^[E] and intelligent behavior in interactive storytelling.^[F] 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, S2CID 54373367

B.

Hayes-Roth, Barbara; Hayes-Roth, Frederick (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, S2CID 16880119

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, hdl:2060/19970037819

F.

Hayes-Roth, Barbara; van Gent, Robert; Huber, Daniel (1997), "Acting in character", in Trappl, Robert; Petta, Paolo (eds.), Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors: Towards Autonomous Personality Agents, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1195, Springer, pp. 92–112, doi:10.1007/bfb0030573, ISBN 978-3-540-62735-7, S2CID 16942371

Recognition

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