[1] She is a professor emerita in the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[4] After a 1970 master's degree at Brandeis University,[2][4] she completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.
[2] Her dissertation, Epistemology, Representation, Understanding and Interactive Exploration of Mathematical Theories, was supervised by Seymour Papert.
[2] Her interest in law began around this time after reading a book on US Supreme Court decisions.
[2] She also served two terms as a program director for artificial intelligence and cognitive science at the National Science Foundation, from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2010 to 2012,[4] helped found the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law,[1] and later served as its president.