The 9th annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics is calling for papers. The conference will be held in Haifa, Israel from February 17-23, 2008. Two of the keynote speakers were professors of mine last semester. Alon Lavie works on machine translation (including for low-resource languages) and machine translation evaluation. Kemal Oflazer was [...]
Archive for 28 August 2007
CICLing 2008: CFP
Posted: 28 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: call for papers, cfp, cmu, computational linguistics, conferences, professors
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Chinese internet watchdog
Posted: 28 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: censorship, china, human rights, internet, liberty
Well, Chinese internet users are getting the shaft yet again. Beijing police are going to be putting cartoon police officers on the top Chinese web portals. These nifty little guys will warn users that they shouldn’t be looking at illegal websites. Isn’t that sweet? We wouldn’t want all those minds polluted by notions of liberty, [...]
The Space Station goes gimmicky
Posted: 28 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: gimmicks, nasa, space, space station, spaceflight, star wars
As a big fan of both Star Wars and the International Space Station, you would think that the upcoming marriage of the two would delight me. You would be wrong. Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber will be flown to Houston, where it will be sent off by Chewie and a host of other minor Star Wars characters, [...]
FreeAlert.org
Posted: 28 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: freealert, friends, non-profit, programming, python, web design
Last year I worked on a project with my friend Israel Kloss called FreeAlert. The site is not-for-profit and was originally intended to help refugees entering the Washington, DC area find things they need for free. It now covers major metropolitan areas all across the United States and is intended to benefit everyone. The idea [...]
