Barbara Ann Kipfer

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1954 –

44

Who is Barbara Ann Kipfer?

Barbara Ann Kipfer is a linguist and lexicographer. She has written more than 50 books, including 14,000 Things to be Happy About, which has more than a million copies in print and has given rise to many Page-a-Day calendars. She is the editor of Roget's International Thesaurus.

She holds a PhD and MPhil in Linguistics from the University of Exeter, a PhD in Archaeology from Greenwich University, an MA and PhD in Buddhist Studies from Akamai University, and a BS in physical education from Valparaiso University. She is a semantic curation specialist for Google. Kipfer has worked for such companies as Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com; Answers.com, Ask Jeeves, Bellcore, Federated Media, General Electric Research, IBM Research, idealab, Knowledge Adventure, Mindmaker/Associative Computing, Textwise, Wang Electronic Publishing, and Alpha.

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1954
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  • United States of America
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  • University of Exeter

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on July 23, 2013

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