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Marti Hearst is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the School of Information and the Computer Science Division. Her research focuses on user interfaces, emphasizing search and information visualization, as well as computational linguistics and educational technology. She is the author of the book 'Search User Interfaces' and has co-founded the ACM Learning@Scale conference, contributing significantly to the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Hearst has served as the President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and is a fellow of both the ACM and ACL. She has received numerous accolades for her teaching, including four Excellence in Teaching Awards from her students at UC Berkeley. Hearst earned her Ph.D., M.S., and B.A. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and has also been a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC.
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