Background
Amsler, Robert Alfred was born on August 23, 1944 in New York City. Son of Jacob Homer and Anna Rose Amsler.
Amsler, Robert Alfred was born on August 23, 1944 in New York City. Son of Jacob Homer and Anna Rose Amsler.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics cum laude, Florida Atlantic University, 1967. Master of Science in Computer Science/Mathematics New York University, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science/Information Science, University Texas, 1980.
Research assistant computer science Department, University Texas, Austin, 1971-1974;
research staff Computation Center, University Texas, Austin, 1974-1975;
programming manager Linguistics Research Center, University Texas, Austin, 1976-1980;
research computer scientist, Artificial Intelligence Center, Socially Responsible Investment International, Menlo Park, California, 1981-1982;
research computer scientist natural-language and knowledge-resource systemsprogram, Advanced Computer Systems Department, Socially Responsible Investment International, Menlo Park, 1982-1983;
research computer scientist artificial intelligence & information science research group, Bellcore (Bell Comm. Research), Morristown, New Jersey, 1983-1990;
lead scientist natural language group, Artificial Intelligence Technology Center, MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, 1991-1992;
independent contractor, National Institute Standards and Technology, since 1993;
independent consultant in computational linguistics,, machine-readable dictionary research, text information retrieval. Research assistant University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, 1975.
Member subcommittee on dictionaries and the lexicon Text Encoding Initiative Committee on Text Analysis and Interpretation, 1988-1993.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Association for Computational Linguistics (program committee conference 1985, steering committee Text Encoding Initiative 1987-1993, steering committee Data Collection Initiative since 1988), American Association for Artificial Intelligence (life), Association for Computing Machinery, American Society for Information Science, Dictionary Society N.A., EUROLEX, University Texas Alumni Association (life).