Doctor Heather Pon-Barry, it is now, from Harvard

A couple of months ago, in November, 2012,  Harvard University certified that our daughter,
Heather Pon-Barry, age 31,  is now a Ph.D., in Computer Science.

Heather started in, as an Assistant Professor, at Arizona State University, in Tempe,  last month
She is leading a Seminar on Natural Language Processing. .   The goal of all this is to make computers as productive as humans, at conversing with humans.  It's pretty easy for a computer to  record the student's oral answers, in  a Question and Answer dialogue, and to label the answers as either correct or incorrect....    A human can also infer, ---to varying degrees---from the student's  tone of voice, and pacing, etc... the "mental state of the student"...  (excited, unsure, bored, hostile, calm, certain, etc. )... Bringing the computer's "Inferring Skills" up to that of the human...was the focus of Heather's  work at Harvard...   You can google her name for the details... It's the future.   

She can be reached at ASU, for further details...

Way to Go,  Doc!

signed:

signed:
Unjustifiably Proud Dad.