Friedman was born in 1928. She was a Durant Scholar at Wellesley College,[4] from which she graduated in 1949, and earned a master's degree at Radcliffe College in 1952.[1] In the same year she moved from the Logistics Research Project at George Washington University to the US Department of Defense,[5] later working at a succession of defense contractors: ACF Industries (where she worked with Sheldon Akers on production scheduling),[6] Tech. Operations, Inc., and the Mitre Corporation.[1]
Friedman worked as an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1965 until 1968, when she moved to the University of Michigan as an associate professor of computer and communications sciences. At Michigan, she was promoted to full professor in 1971. She moved to Boston University as chair of computer science in 1983.[1]
^Akers, Sheldon B.; Friedman, Joyce (November 1955), "A non-numerical approach to production scheduling problems", Journal of the Operations Research Society of America, 3 (4): 429–442, doi:10.1287/opre.3.4.429
^Bátori, István (1973), "Working with the interactive version of the T.G.T.-system of Joyce Friedman", Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '73), Association for Computational Linguistics, doi:10.3115/992532.992542, S2CID40419537
^Ross, Donald Jr. (March 1975), "Review of A Computational Model of Transformational Grammar", Computers and the Humanities, 9 (2): 89–92, doi:10.1007/BF02404311, JSTOR30199754
^Historic Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2021-04-25