Emma Byrne is a contemporary British writer and scientist, working in the fields of swearing, artificial intelligence and robotics.
Byrne completed her PhD in Expectation Violation Analysis[1] at the University College London, UCL, Department of Computer Science in 2005.
During this time, she also won the British Computer Society AI group's annual machine intelligence award.
[3] As part of her work in medical informatics, she studied the introduction of the summary care record, a centrally stored, shared electronic patient record and made recommendations about the implementation of large scale information technology projects in health care.
[13] She was featured in the documentary "Holy F***"[14] presented by Ardal O'Hanlon on RTE One, where she discussed gender differences in swearing.