Barbara (Bella) Hayes-Roth is an American computer scientist and psychologist whose research in artificial intelligence includes work on knowledge acquisition,[A] automated planning and scheduling,[B] spatial cognition,[C] the blackboard system,[D] real-time computing,[E] adaptation,[F] and intelligent behavior in interactive storytelling.
[2] She became a researcher at Bell Laboratories from 1974 to 1976, and at the RAND Corporation from 1976 to 1982, also holding a position as consulting assistant professor in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[1] In addition to her many publications as a computer science researcher, Hayes-Roth is working on a fiction novel, The Ravishing Monica B. Reddy.
An excerpt from the novel, Devesh Reddy, D-Day, was published in a 2020 issue of Chicago Quarterly Review.
In the excerpt, the titular character, Monica B. Reddy, is an Oracle executive in her forties who has just left her home to meet with her boss.