Judy Goldsmith (computer scientist) facts for kids

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Judith Anne (Judy) Goldsmith is a computer scientist whose publications span a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, computational complexity theory, decision theory, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky.

Education and career

Goldsmith graduated from Princeton University in 1982, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in mathematics (with a minor in computer science) in 1988. Her dissertation, Polynomial Isomorphisms and Near-Testable Sets, was supervised by Deborah Joseph.

After short-term positions as a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, research instructor at Dartmouth College, and NSF visiting professor at Boston University, she joined the computer science faculty at the University of Manitoba in 1991. She moved to the University of Kentucky in 1993.

Recognition

Goldsmith won the Mentor Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 1997.

Selected publications

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