Alice Wolf
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| Former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 25th Middlesex District | |
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In office 1996–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Flaherty |
| Succeeded by | Marjorie Decker |
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December 24, 1933 Vienna, Austria |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater | Simmons College |
| Occupation | Legislator |
Alice K. Wolf (born Alice Koerner, December 24, 1933) is an American politician. She served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1996 to 2013, representing the 25th Middlesex District. On March 22, 2012, Wolf announced that she would not seek re-election. Her term ended in January 2013.
She previously served on the Cambridge, Massachusetts School Committee and Cambridge City Council Cambridge City Council, Massachusetts#Government, as the Mayor of Cambridge, as the mayor from 1990 to 1991.
Wolf was born to a Jewish family in 1933 in Vienna, Austria. Her parents, Frederick (Fritz) and Renee Koerner, fled Nazi persecution in 1938, bringing the family to Brighton, Massachusetts.
The first school that Wolf attended was the Baldwin Early Learning Center, which is still running in Brighton, Massachusetts.
She attended high school at Boston Girl’s Latin School, now Boston Latin Academy. She graduated from Simmons College (Massachusetts) in 1955 with a degree in Experimental Psychology. In the same year she and her husband, Robert Wolf were married. The Wolfs settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts where they raised a family. She later earned a master's degree in public administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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.
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