News

Jerry Hobbs has received the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award.

Yang Feng joined ISI as a Postdoc in July 2013, working with Professor Kevin Knight on syntax-based and semantics-based machine translation.

Nathan Hodas, Farshad Kooti, and Kristina Lerman's paper received an honorable mention at the 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013) in Boston last week. The paper is titled "Friendship Paradox Redux: Your Friends are More Interesting Than You", and you can find it here.

Congratulations Nathan, Farshad and Kristina!

Greg has just been notified that he's been appointed Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science. This was well deserved. For evidence, take a look at his CV and check out some of his publications. I'm sure you all join me in congratulating Greg on his new appointment!

The award is for Yu-Han and Rajiv's proposal DARE 2 STEM: Distributed Alternate Reality Environments towards Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics. The RIF program was established in 2007 and is aimed at fostering novel strategic research directions, projects, and activities in the school.

I am Nial Alwash, and I attend the Harvard-Westlake School. Currently I am working on getting computers to understand and speak English thru the ISI Natural Language Generator. I am not sure yet exactly what I want to be, but I am aiming towards a field with math and sciences. I play soccer and football as well as the piano.

Viterbi had a K-12 outreach booth at this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books that was manned by Viterbi students and the K-12 students with whom they work. Students showed off rockets and robots and games (oh my!)