William Aaron Woods

William Aaron Woods
Born (1942-06-17) June 17, 1942
Alma materOhio Wesleyan University
Harvard University
Known forKL-ONE
Semantic networks
Knowledge representation and reasoning
AwardsAssociation for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsAlphabet
Sun Microsystems
ITA Software
BBN Technologies
ON Technology
Applied Expert Systems, Inc.
Ohio Wesleyan University
Harvard University
ThesisSemantics for a Question Answering System (1968)
Doctoral advisorSusumu Kuno
Doctoral studentsSteven Salzberg
Bonnie Webber
Ronald J. Brachman
Websitewww.parsecraft.com

William Aaron Woods (born June 17, 1942), generally known as Bill Woods, is a researcher in natural language processing, continuous speech understanding, knowledge representation, and knowledge-based search technology. He is currently a Software Engineer at Google.