Barbara Tversky studied cognitive psychology at the University of Michigan. She taught at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then moved to Stanford, where she taught many years before taking early retirement and transferring to Columbia Teachers College, although she happily maintains ties with Stanford. Her research integrates the basic with the applied, from memory, categorization, spatial language and thinking, event perception and cognition to eyewitness testimony, human-computer interaction, visualizations, design, and more. She has enjoyed interdisciplinary collaborations with linguists, philosophers, architects, designers, biologists, chemists, and especially computer scientists.