Elaine Alice Rich is an American computer scientist, known for her textbooks on artificial intelligence and automata theory and for her research on user modeling.
[1] She majored in linguistics and applied mathematics at Brown University, graduating magna cum laude in 1972.
Her doctoral dissertation, Building and Exploiting User Models, was supervised by George G.
[2][3] She joined the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in 1979, but in 1985 moved to the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) as a researcher in the Human Interface Laboratory and Knowledge-Based Natural Language Project.
[2] During her time at UT, she developed an interactive textbook, FREGE (Fundamentals of Reasoning for the Electronic Age), which was utilized in a course at the university.