Stuart Shieber

James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Professor Shieber’s primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. Shieber received an AB in applied mathematics summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1989. He was given a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, and was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1993, one of only thirty in the country in all areas of science and engineering. At Harvard, he has been awarded two honorary chairs: the John L. Loeb Associate Professorship in Natural Sciences in 1993 and the Harvard College Professorship in 2001. He was named a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2004. He was the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society. His work at the Berkman Center is informed by his interest in and efforts towards open access to scholarly literature.