Steve Richardson is an associate professor of computer science at Brigham Young University and currently serves as the president of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA). He has been an active participant in the research and development of machine translation (MT) for more than four decades, working as manager of MT and translation systems at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for ten years, as principal researcher and manager of the MT group at Microsoft Research for 17 years, and as senior programmer and manager of natural language processing groups at IBM for 11 years, including at the TJ Watson Research Center.