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Candy Sidner, Research Scientist, Lotus ResearchCandy Sidner has been a research scientist at Lotus Development Corporation since 1993. Before coming to Lotus, she had been a member of the research staff at Cambridge Research Lab (Digital Equipment Corporation), visiting fellow at Harvard University, and a Division Scientist at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. At Lotus, Candy is pursuing research in three areas: (1) collaborative interface agents, (2) the use of speech understanding with Lotus products, (3) studies of email overload and use in order to produce better email related tools. Candy has served on numerous program committees and journal boards for societies in artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. She is a past president of the Association of Computational Linguistics (1989), and is a Fellow and past Councillor of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Candy received a Ph.D. from MIT in Computer Science (1979). Daniel Coffman, Research Staff, IBM Speech ResearchDr. Coffman obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University in 1979 and completed graduate study at the California Institute of Technology in 1986. For the following eight years he worked as a research associate in the physics department of Cornell University. While there he contributed to particle accelerator and detector design, cryogenic systems, and supercondcuting radio frequency cavities. His principle area of research was the study of photon-photon interactions. Since 1996, he has been employed by IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Center as a member of the Human Language Technologies department. His efforts there have been devoted to internet-based speech applications and conversational systems. |
