Early Career
Alice Wolf’s career started at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory where she conducted perceptual research by programming the Memory Test Computer to display dot patterns to human subjects. Later, she co-authored a paper “Baseball: An Automated Question Answerer” which described an early attempt at natural language database queries. The paper was translated into Chinese and Russian. After Lincoln Laboratory, Wolf worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman as well as Computer Corporation of America, which was later acquired by Rocket Software.
Alice Wolf’s path to civic engagement and elective office began with participation in the Parent-Teacher’s Association of the Peabody School in Cambridge, where her sons were students. Deep involvement as a parent with school affairs ultimately led to her election in 1974 as a member of the Cambridge School Committee, where she served from January 1974 through January 1982.
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