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Career

Dahl is a woman pioneer in a male-dominated field. She fought gender inequality while she was a professor at Simon Frasier University, including getting childcare expenses reimbursed while traveling for out-of-town lectures, and starting a university-wide investigation into women's lower salaries. After Simon Frasier University refused to reimburse her $17 for childcare expenses while she was guest-speaking at a lecture, she went first to her department and then Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) with her protest, which ended with the NSERC changing their policy to make childcare a covered expense for researchers they funded.

Research

Dahl's research was focused on "bridging the gap between the formal and the humanistic sciences, and to achieve more human-like communication with computers." Dahl has research that has had theoretical and practical use in logic, linguistics, intelligence, and molecular biology.

Most Significant Scholarly Publications

1. Language-proficient Knowledge Bases and the World Wide Web
2. Intelligent methodologies for Life Sciences, in particular Molecular Biology
3. Properties as constraints—from parsing to cognitive modeling
4. Integrating high level methodologies into a new language: HYPROLOG

Literary Works

Veronica Dahl had a love for poetry and has received several awards for her published works:

Prose

• (1999) Love to Hide, Love to Invent. First Prize in the Prose Category, Cecilia Lamont Literary Contest.

• (2000) Detour. First Prize, Crime55 literary contest.
• (2000) A Case of Possession. First Prize in the Prose Category, Cecilia Lamont Literary Contest.

Poetry

• (2000) Wholeness. Finalist of the 11th Annual Poetry contest, Hope Writers Guild.
• (2000) Life Tides. Finalist of the Millenium 2000 Poetry contest.