SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) Susan Dumais (born August 11, 1953) is an American computer scientist who is a leader in the field of information retrieval, and has been a significant contributor to Microsoft's search technologies.

[1] According to Mary Jane Irwin, who heads the Athena Lecture awards committee, “Her sustained contributions have shaped the thinking and direction of human-computer interaction and information retrieval.

Dumais and the other Bellcore researchers then began investigating ways to build search systems that avoided the vocabulary problem.

In 2011, she was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering for innovation and leadership in organizing, accessing, and interacting with information.

"[5] and the Tony Kent Strix award for "sustained contributions that are both innovative and practical" with "significant impact".