I did my M.S. and Ph.D. in the Haystack Group at MIT CSAIL, advised by David Karger. I focused on two separate areas that I believe the future will show are deeply related: natural language processing and low-code programming frameworks.
These are my publications from that time period.
Spreadsheet Driven Web Applications
Edward Benson, Amy Zhang, David KargerUIST / Honolulu, Hawaii 2014
Cascading Tree Sheets and Recombinant HTML: Better Encapsulation and Retargeting of Web Content
Edward Benson, David KargerWWW / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013
Voice Query Refinement
Cyril Allauzen, Edward Benson, Ciprian Chelba, Michael Riley, Johan SchalkwykINTERSPEECH / Portland, OR 2012
Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds
Edward Benson, Aria Haghighi, Regina BarzilayACL / Portland, OR 2011
A Framework for Multiresolutional Knowledge Dissemination and Collection in Large Dynamic Multi-Agent Societies
Edward Benson, Jeff Berliner, Marshall BrinnKIMAS / Boston, MA 2007
Application of Ontology Translation
Jim Ressler, Mike Dean, Edward Benson, Eric Dorner, Chris MorrisISWC / Busan, Korea 2007
Evaluation of UDDI as a Provider of Resource Discovery Services for OGSA-based Grids
Edward Benson, Glenn Wasson, Marty HumphreyIPDPS / Rhodes Island, Greece 2006