is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Olin as a founding faculty member in September 2000, Stein was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she had been on the faculty since 1990.
Dr. Stein received the A.B. degree in computer science from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1986 and the Sc.M. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990) from the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. Her dissertation, under the supervision of Dr. Leora Morgenstern, was entitled Resolving Ambiguity in Nonmonotonic Reasoning. As an undergraduate, Stein served as a teaching assistant in several undergraduate computer science and mathematics courses and was administrative course head for the second course in computer science. From 1987 until 1990, she was an I.B.M. Graduate Fellow. In 1989, she received the Sigma Xi Graduate Student Award.
Dr. Stein's research spans the fields of cognitive robotics, commonsense reasoning, software agents, human-computer interaction and collaboration, object-oriented programming, and computer science education. She is author or co-author of more than 50 publications and has served on the program committees of numerous national and international conferences in these fields. She is co-founder and organizer (1993) of the Robot Building Event at the national conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Stein is a recipient of the 1995 Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award as well as the of the 1992 General Electric Foundation Faculty for the Future Award. In 1993, she received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. She is a Founding Fellow of the Kiss Institute for Practical Robotics. From 1991 to 1996 she served as Associate Chair and then Chair of the AAAI's Symposium Committee; in 1995, she was elected to the Executive Council of the AAAI.
Dr. Stein spent 1998 as a Fellow at Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute. There, she expanded her work on computational metaphors and computer science education, including writing a draft of her forthcoming textbook, Introduction to Interactive Programming (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers). That book, a part of the Rethinking CS101 Project, is currently being beta tested by over a thousand students in half a dozen classrooms around the world.
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