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Living with Purpose and Passion: In-Depth with 3 Dean’s Distinguished Graduates

May 20, 2016 by Emily Nielsen

Each spring, 12 graduating seniors in the College of Liberal Arts are named Dean’s Distinguished Graduates. The award honors students for their leadership, scholarly achievements and service to the community. The acknowledgment of the Dean’s Distinguished Graduates has become an integral part of the college’s spring commencement ceremony, with more than 400 students recognized since […]

Blue man in computer asking "When will my computer understand me"

When Will My Computer Understand Me?

August 23, 2013 by Emily Nielsen Leave a Comment

For more than 50 years, linguists and computer scientists have tried to get computers to understand human language by programming semantics as software. Driven by efforts to translate Russian texts during the Cold War (and more recently by the value of information retrieval and data analysis tools), these efforts have met with mixed success. IBM’s […]

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