Donna Harman graduated from Cornell University with a degree in electrical engineering, but has been involved with research in new search engine techniques for many years. She currently heads a group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology working in the area of natural language access to full text, both in search and browsing modes. In 1992 she started the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), an ongoing forum that brings together researchers from industry and academia to test their search engines against a common corpus involving over a million documents, with appropriate topics and relevance judgments.