Edwina Rissland

Edwina Rissland's areas of research include case-based reasoning (CBR), AI and legal reasoning, CBR and information retrieval, mixed paradigm reasoning, and cyberlaw.

Rissland joined the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1979. For the 1982-83 academic year, she was a Fellow of Law and Computer Science at the Harvard Law School. From 1985 through 1996, she held an appointment as Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, where she taught a seminar on artificial intelligence and legal reasoning. She is recognized as a founder and world leader in the areas of CBR and AI and law.

Since September 2003, Rissland has been serving as program director for the Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) Program in the Division of Information and Intelligence Systems (IIS) within the CISE Directorate of the National Science Foundation. Currently, she is serving as leader for the Robust Intelligence cluster.

Rissland has served as president of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, and on the Board of Councilors of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), as well as on numerous program committees, including the national conferences of the AAAI, the international conferences on case-based reasoning (ICCBR), and the biennial international conferences on AI & law (ICAIL). She has served as guest editor/co-editor for several special journal issues, including the special issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Law (Fall 2002) in memory of the contributions of Don Berman, and the recent double issue of Artificial Intelligence on AI and Law (Vol 150, Nos. 1-2, Nov. 2003). She has authored over 100 articles, books, and technical reports. She is a co-author of the text Cognitive Science: An Integrated Approach published by MIT Press/Bradford Books. She was co-editor of the MIT Press series on AI and law, and is a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Law. Rissland was elected as a Fellow of AAAI in 1991.