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If you are doing a term project, a supplementary assignment will appear in the next assignment sometime during spring break.
Lexical Attraction Models of Language, by Deniz Yuret
Technology and Courage, by Ivan Sutherland
| There is no written assignment; just read the papers on the plane and think about what you would write if you were to work up a written page in response to the following assignment. |
The piece de resistance is the Yuret paper. You can skim the Sutherland paper.
Imagine that you are a graduate student working in Artificial Intelligence at MIT. Your research supervisor, Patrick Winston, says, roughly, “I would like you to go to this language conference to see what this stuff is all about. Put together a little trip report for me when you get back.” Because the conference is to be held in Sveti Stefan, a beautiful medieval town, converted into a resort, on the Adriatic Sea, you instantly agree.
Unfortunately, you end up partying a lot and sleep through the talks. Fortunately, a friend tells you that you didn't miss much, because the talks were all incredible pistarines, except for Yuret's talk, which closely followed the the material in his paper, and Sutherland's keynote address, which closely followed the material in his paper.
Produce the requested trip report. Start with something like “The conference involved little of interest, except for the talk by Yuret and Sutherland's keynote address...” Use what you have learned about presentation in the way you structure your report.
Human interest asside: After completing his PhD, Yuret started up a company, AnswerFriend, during the internet craze and after that, returned to Turkey where is a professor at the highly regarded Koç University in Istanbul (nee Constantinople, nee Byzantium). Meanwhile, AnswerFriend has become Inquira.