Henry Lieberman is an American computer scientist at the MIT CSAIL in the fields of programming languages, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.
He received the 2018 ACM Impact Award Intelligent User Interaction[1] for work on mining affect from text and has been applied to the problem of prevention of cyberbullying.
Some of his contributions include prototype object systems, the concept of delegation,[2] and the first real-time garbage collection[3] algorithms in programming languages.
His recent work at the MIT Media Lab has centered around the field of commonsense reasoning for user interaction as well as programming by examples.
He has edited or co-edited three books, including End-User Development (Springer, 2006), Spinning the Semantic Web (MIT Press, 2004), and Your Wish is My Command: Programming by Example (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001).