Boris_Katz
Boris Katz (born October 5, 1947) is a principal American research scientist (computer scientist) at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and head of the Laboratory's InfoLab Group.[1][2] His research interests include natural language processing and understanding, machine learning and intelligent information access. His brother Victor Kac is a mathematician at MIT.
He was able to get out of the USSR with the help of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, before the end of the cold war.[3][4][5][6]
Over the last several decades,[7] Boris Katz has been developing the START natural language system that allows the user to access various types of information using English.