Background
Lansky grew up in Buffalo, New New York
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Amy Linda Lansky
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She received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Rochester in 1977 and a Master of Surgery (1979) and Doctor of Philosophy (1983) in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Career
After receiving her doctorate, Lansky worked on artificial intelligence planning at Socially Responsible Investment International and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center. During this time, she worked with Michael Georgeff on the Procedural Reasoning System. Lansky is also known for her development of the multiagent planning system COLLAGE. Lansky"s other computer science publications include:
Amy L. Lansky, "Pasmac – A Macro Processor for Pascal", Technical Report Computer Science Laboratory-Tennessee-174, Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory, April, 1980.
Amy L. Lansky, "Specification and Analysis of Concurrency", Doctoral Dissertation, Technical Report STAN-CS-83-993, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 1984.
Amy L. Lansky and Susan South. Owicki, "Groupe d'Economie Mondiale: A Tool for Concurrency Specification and Verification", in Proceedings of the Second Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1983. In 1998, Lansky left the field of Computer Science to study homeopathy.
This transition was prompted by her perceived success at using homeopathy to "cure her son of Autism." She explained the situation in a Psychology Today interview: "As a scientist, I recognize that homeopathy is implausible. In 2003, she published Impossible Cure: The Promise of ().
This book is now used as a textbook in homeopathy schools and is cited in a number of other books on alternative health.
lieutenant has been translated into German and Greek. Lansky is involved in a number of activities to promote homeopathy:
She served on the executive board of the California Health Freedom Coalition which was instrumental in legalizing unlicensed forms of medicine in California by passing (in 2002) Bachelor of Science-577 into law. She testified in a California Senate hearing on November 1, 2001.
She has been part of their Steering Committee.
From 1998 to 2000, she was co-editor of the North American Homeopathic Society"s journal "The American Homeopath". Since 2004, she has published a regular column in the British Society of Homeopaths newsletter called "Letters From America".
She currently broadcasts a monthly Internet radio show on Autism One called "There"s Hope With ". She is currently on the executive board of the National Center for Lansky appears as a guest on alternative health radio shows and is treated as an expert by the organizers of various alternative health forums:
She has a forum called "Leading Voices in ".
Lansky is a musician who has composed a number of piano pieces.
She was the singer of Not Dead Yet, a Silicon Valley rock-and-roll band.
