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The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics offers numerous undergraduate and graduate degree options, as well as minors and certificates , and, beginning in fall 2022, a joint degree with the McDonough School of Business. Please visit the following departments/programs for more information on their offerings.

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• Spanish and Portuguese Studies

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Deborah Tannen, PhD

University Professor Department of Linguistics Georgetown University 471 ICC, Box 571051 3900 Reservoir Road, NW Washington, DC 20057  Phone: 202 687-5910 Fax: 202 687-2637  [email protected] explore.georgetown.edu/people/tannend www.deborahtannen.com 

Research Interests

Gender differences in language use

Research Summary

Conversations between women and men can be regarded, metaphorically, as cross-cultural communication. Boys and girls learn ways of speaking as children at play with other children of the same sex, with the result that as adults men and women have different senses of how to use language in interaction. Differences include physical orientation (in informal conversations, women tend to sit face to face and lean toward each other, while men tend to sit at angles or parallel and look around the room); women tend to give more listener cues, such as “mhm, yeah, uhuh.” Both these patterns result in women feeling men aren’t listening and, in the case of listener cues, men feeling women are rushing them along; women tend to value having their experience validated while men tend to focus more quickly on what actions they should take. All these patterns, and many more, differ by cultural background as well as gender. Understanding how gender differences in communication affect doctor-patient interaction is crucial to understanding and improving diagnosis, outcomes and compliance in interactions in medical contexts.

Representative Publications

• You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Morrow, 1990. Paperback: Ballantine. (translated into 29 languages)
• Talking from 9 to 5: How Women’s and Men’s Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work. NY: Morrow, 1994. Paperback Avon, 1995.
• Gender and Discourse. NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• “Gender and Family Interaction,” Handbook on Language and Gender ed. by Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff. Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 2003.
• “Discourse and Gender.” The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton, pp. 548-567. Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001. (with Shari Kendall).

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Addiction Policy & Practice

The Master’s of Science in Addiction Policy and Practice (ADPP) prepares students to work at the forefront of developing policy responses to the issue of addiction in the United States and abroad. Students follow an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum that combines neuroscience, psychiatry, policy, and observational experiences in various policy and clinical settings. Students study the drivers of addiction, societal and environmental factors that lead to substance use disorders and other types of addiction, the science of prevention, treatment, and recovery from addiction, as well as the legal and policy aspects that form the nation’s addiction policies. Courses include domestic drug policy, health care financing, epidemiology, comparative approaches to drug and addiction policy, and data analysis.

Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

• Certificate

Through a hybrid blend of asynchronous didactic content, synchronous class sessions, and In-person on-campus intensives (OCIs), the Online Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) program from the School of Nursing & Health Studies prepares registered nurses (RNs) to manage the care of patients with acute and chronic conditions. Certificate option available for qualified students.

Advanced Biomedical Sciences (with George Mason University Joint Certificate)

• Graduate Certificate

The Advanced Biomedical Sciences (ABS) certificate program, in partnership with George Mason University, is offered through our GeorgeSquared Program. The program offers an outstanding biomedical sciences curriculum to enhance a student’s background for application to professional schools in the biomedical field.

Aging & Health

Our interdisciplinary program looks comprehensively at aging — a demographically inevitable process — and prepares students for emerging careers by shifting the conversation surrounding aging populations. Georgetown University’s Master’s in Aging & Health (AGHL) goes beyond geriatrics to encompass the study of aging well in today’s society.

Applied Economics

The M.A. in Applied Economics program has a key objective to provide students with a solid foundation in microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, as well as coursework that provides students with the ability to comprehend empirical analyses pertinent to the discussion of economic issues and equip them with the skills to undertake original research projects and data analysis. After completion of core courses, students study the application of these tools of economic study to a range of contemporary economic problems. This material is covered in a range of elective courses focusing on more specialized areas of economics.

Applied Mathematics

The Ph.D. program in Applied Mathematics prepares students for research and teaching careers in academia, industry, or government. The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has strong links to area employers and is already oriented toward providing graduate students with the skills most in demand in applied work.

Arab Studies

• Accelerated

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) is the only academic center in the United States focusing exclusively on the Arab world. Through a master’s program or an undergraduate or graduate certificate, students will be trained in the language, history, culture, society, politics, and economics of the contemporary Arab world.

Arabic and Islamic Studies

The graduate program in Arabic and Islamic Studies aim to combine a thorough understanding of the Arabic language with scholarly research in the literary, linguistic and intellectual traditions of the Arab and Islamic world. The Arabic and Islamic Studies Department offers graduate level courses in Arabic linguistics, Islamic studies, and literature of the classical and modern eras. M.A. students will complete one Major concentration and one Minor concentration towards the degree. Similarly, Ph.D. students who are admitted with advanced standing will complete one Major concentration and one Minor concentration towards the degree. Those who are admitted to the Ph.D. program without an earned master’s degree in a related field will complete one Major concentration and two Minor concentrations.

Art & Museum Studies

Georgetown’s M.A. in Art & Museum Studies program is a selective program that combines the academic study of art history and museum practice and emphasizes the international contexts of museums in the modern world. Students work closely with Georgetown art history faculty, curators, and other museum professionals in Washington, D.C., and faculty specialists at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, England and New York City.

Asian Studies

The M.A. in Asian Studies Program gives students a unique combination of functional training and regional expertise, and provides students with the skills necessary to meet the demands of global private and public sector interests in Asia. Students have the opportunity to study core disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences as they relate to Asia, and are given the opportunity to specialize in at least one and potentially two areas of concentration.

M.A. in Language & Communication

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Careers for Linguists | Linguistics for Career

The MA in Language and Communication (MLC) is a 2-year professionally-oriented program grounded in applied Sociolinguistics that prepares graduates to develop careers using their linguistics skillset in business, government, nonprofit, tech and education. 

Our unique program of study focuses on the application of linguistic theory, research, and methods to a broad range of career paths accompanied by intensive professional development. Every student has the flexibility to tailor their program to their academic and professional interests and goals. Many students work part- or full-time during their degree program.

MLC alumni work in Conversation Design (CxD), User Experience Research & Design (UX/UI), voice and speech technology, international government, the FBI/CIA/NSA, artificial intelligence, social cause communication, nonprofit leadership and advocacy, applied research, marketing & branding, health care communication, business & consulting, higher education–and more. 

As we like to say: Every organization needs a linguist–they just don’t know it yet . MLC will give you the tools to position yourself in ways that show your value to an organization.

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Graduate Programs

Our two graduate programs stress the development of analytical, scholarly, and creative abilities through small seminars; formal pedagogical training is also a key component. Graduate students (both domestic and international) are encouraged to present their work at scholarly meetings and to publish in refereed media, often in collaboration with faculty members. The Department has had considerable success in placing its graduates in tenure-track jobs in many major educational institutions in the United States and abroad.

The Department works with  The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to support new students entering our doctoral programs every year in Linguistics and Literature and Cultural Studies. All fellows entering the doctoral programs receive a stipend, health insurance, and a tuition waiver for five years. You can apply  here . Please note that to be eligible for a fellowship you must apply directly to the Ph.D. Program. A previous MA or MS is not required to apply directly to the Ph.D. program.

The Spanish Linguistics program, one of the strongest in the U.S., includes courses in Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Phonology, Dialectology, Lexicography, Textual Edition, Corpus Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics. The program is offered in close collaboration with the Department of Linguistics. 

Our program in Literature and Cultural Studies emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach in which attention to primary texts and critical theory is combined with audiovisual, historical, and philosophical perspectives so that students can develop their research skills to the fullest. Our faculty cover all traditional areas – Medieval, Early Modern, Modern Spain, Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, and Luso-Brazilian Studies – as well as less traditional or emerging fields such as Transatlantic/Transpacific Studies, and Film and Media Studies.

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As Barron Trump college choice looms, here's where his family graduated (and who didn't)

Donald trump graduated from the university of pennsylvania. melania trump attended slovenia's oldest university but dropped out to pursue modeling..

• Barron Trump, the only son of Donald Trump and Melania Trump, spent much of his childhood in New York.
• Trump and his children have many ties to the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown in Washington, D.C.
• Trump University or Trump U was a real estate program from 2005 to 2010. It was not an actual university.

Now that Barron Trump is a class of 2024 high school graduate, what's next for the youngest son of Donald Trump?

Barron Trump, the only child of former president Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, received his high school diploma May 17, 2024, from Oxbridge Academy near West Palm Beach, Florida. Will Barron Trump go to college? The former first couple has not said much.

One possibility could be New York University in Manhattan, where Barron Trump spent much of his childhood — and lived until his father was sworn in as the 45th president in early 2017.

Trump said on Fox News this month that Barron had been accepted "everywhere" he applied, adding the recent high school graduate is "very sought after from the standpoint he's a very smart guy."

Almost a year ago,  Donald Trump  said  his youngest son , then a senior at Oxbridge Academy, was “thinking” about the University of Pennsylvania, from where the former president graduated and studied at the Wharton School.

In fact, Barron Trump's half-siblings — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump (born to Donald Trump and Ivana Trump) and Tiffany Trump (born to Donald Trump and Marla Maples) — have ties to the University of Pennsylvania or Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Where did the Trump family attend college? Here's a roundup.

They do! Memories of Donald & Melania Trump's wedding in Palm Beach, reception at Mar-a-Lago

Where will Barron Trump attend college?

As of Thursday, June 13, it has not been announced where Barron Trump, the youngest son of former president Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, will attend college. Barron Trump graduated May 17, 2024, from Oxbridge Academy near West Palm Beach, Florida.

Where did Donald Trump attend college?

Donald Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in May 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.

Barron Trump, the youngest son of Donald Trump and Melania Trump: His life in photos

Where did Melania Trump attend college?

Melania Trump, the former first lady of the U.S. from 2016 to 2020, briefly attended college, but never graduated. Then Melania Knauss, the Slovenian "began modeling at age 16, and two years later she signed on with an agency in Milan. She enrolled at the University of Ljubljana but dropped out after one year to pursue her modeling career," according to the Melania Trump bio on biography.com .

In her early days of modeling, the site states, Melania Trump worked in Milan and Paris before moving to New York in 1996. She met future husband Donald Trump two years later at a New York fashion party. (The Trumps were engaged in 2004 and married in 2005.)

Melania Trump, then known professionally as Melania Knauss, appeared on the covers of Harper's Bazaar (Bulgaria edition), Vanity Fair (Italy edition), GQ (for which she posed nude in January 2000) and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue .

The University of Ljubljana , or UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia.

Exclusive video: Donald Trump’s son Barron Trump receives his high school diploma from Oxbridge Academy

Where did Donald Trump Jr. attend college?

Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Like his father, Donald Trump Jr. has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance.

Where did Eric Trump attend college?

Eric Trump graduated from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in finance and management in 2006.

Where did Ivanka Trump attend college?

According to a March 2017 story in the Georgetown Voice , Donald Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, was a student at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., but transferred after two years to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Ivanka Trump graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics from Penn in 2004.

Where did Tiffany Trump attend college?

Like her father, Tiffany Trump attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in sociology. Four years later, Tiffany Trump graduated from Georgetown Law School as part of the class of 2020. Like many class of 2020 seniors (for high school and college), Tiffany Trump's college graduation was a virtual commencement ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

What is Trump University?

Trump University or Trump U was a real estate program that ran from 2005 to 2010.

According to an April 2018 USA TODAY story , "Trump University was not an actual university but a for-profit seminar series, and former students waged a years-long battle claiming the course misled them with claims of teaching real estate success." That same month, a federal judge finalized a $25 million settlement between then-President Trump and students of his shuttered Trump University.

The order marked the end of two class-action lawsuits and a civil lawsuit from New York. Trump had entered settlement talks days after the 2016 election and in April 2018 agreed to pay the millions under terms that let him admit no wrongdoing, USA TODAY reported.

Contributing: Josh Hafner, USA TODAY

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  Gwen Hildebrandt  passed her PhD dissertation defense on June 24, 2024. Her dissertation is entitled "Distributional cues to syntactic structure: case studies in Korean” and she was advised by Charles Yang. Julie Anne Legate and Martin Salzmann served on her committee. 

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Spanish Linguistics

The Spanish Linguistics program at Georgetown University is offered in close collaboration with the Department of Linguistics. 

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• Ph.D. Spanish Linguistics students at Georgetown University must have completed successfully the 11 courses required for Master’s candidates, as well as passed the first-year examination, completed the qualifying paper and received departmental approval to advance to the doctorate.

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• 84 months

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• Apply before 2024-12-15 00:00:00

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We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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June 24, 2024 By University Advancement Staff

On July 1, the W&M Alumni Association Board of Directors will welcome the following members, who were elected to first or renewed terms. All alumni are eligible to vote in board elections, which took place in January and February of this year. To express your interest in serving on this or another board in the future, please fill out the Volunteer Interest Form . 

James Ambrose ’07

Seattle, washington.

James H. Ambrose is a group finance manager at Microsoft Corp., where he leads the team responsible for revenue strategy and planning for Microsoft’s Azure data and artificial intelligence services. James has been a member of the Annual Giving Board of Directors since 2015. Immediately after graduating, James was a member of the Business Partners Board at the Mason School of Business. At William & Mary, James completed a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in accounting and double-majored in psychology. He and his wife, Catherine Williams Ambrose ’07, live in the Seattle metro area.

Milan Chakraborty ’00

Chattanooga, tennessee.

“The alumni community has been there for me through 9/11, loss of jobs, loss of fellow alumni, loss of my father and a career transition from accountant to film producer. I believe it is my duty to return that favor. I also want to remind fellow alumni about the special place we called home in our formative years. I want to make sure alumni feel like they still have a voice especially beyond the Commonwealth of Virginia and traditional careers. They should feel heard and supported by their alma mater and fellow alums. I have friends from the class of 1960 to 2027 (friends’ kids). As a member of the alumni board, I want to work so that every alum feels the love I have for this school and I want that bond to strengthen from the day they graduate for the rest of their life.”

Brian Focarino ’11, J.D. ’15

Boston, massachusetts.

“Serving on the William & Mary Alumni Association Board of Directors for the last three years has opened my eyes to the huge range of contributions William & Mary people make in their communities and professions across the country and world daily, and the many opportunities that exist for our Alumni Association to support, encourage, connect and engage them with one another and William & Mary. Community is a cornerstone of the William & Mary experience. It is an honor to support the William & Mary Alumni Association and the unique role and responsibility it plays in amplifying our community across geographies and generations.”

Aaron Mosby ’05

Washington, d.c..

“I am excited for the opportunity to serve on the WMAA Board of Directors to help the organization realize its vision to ‘…create opportunities to strengthen bonds between each other and alma mater….’ I hope to offer my skills, experience, and passion to the board to drive an increase in alumni engagement with students so that we can help illuminate their paths towards leadership and service in the communities they will join after graduation. The first step towards that goal will be learning how alumni are already engaging with students and helping to define ways WMAA can build on and amplify those efforts for all time coming.”

Barbara “Barb” L. Ramsey ’75

Williamsburg, virginia.

“Engagement is a hallmark of who I am, and I would like to further the connection of alumni to each other and to William & Mary by serving on the Alumni Association Board.”

JoAnn D. Adrales Ruh ’89, P ’22

Richmond, virginia.

“William & Mary has given so much to me, and I’m grateful. I met my husband and many of my dearest friends there, and the education I received prepared me for a lifetime of learning and service. In the years since graduation, I’ve continued to reap the benefits of my connections with our alma mater. In my role as an advisor to my sorority chapter on campus, I’ve loved getting to know some of our impressive students. Watching my son and his teammates on the W&M Ultimate Frisbee team skillfully compete filled me with joy as I saw firsthand the school spirit and camaraderie that is a Tribe trademark. Being an active member of the College community is fun and rewarding. As a member of the Alumni Association Board, I will work to promote its mission to cultivate community and advance William & Mary.”

Hodan Seager ’18

New york, new york.

Laura Pinnow Sheehan ’99

Falls church, virginia.

“I feel strongly that my No. 1 responsibility as an alumna is to help students launch and develop their careers. Equipped with a firm grasp on the global job market, first-hand knowledge of current job search challenges and a keen understanding of university ranking factors (especially first-destination employment outcomes), I believe I could substantively contribute to deep-dive discussions, creative solutions and sustainable outcomes. I would be honored to be a part of W&M’s Vision 2026 value proposition: ‘W&M will be known as the best university for lifelong career engagement.”

JSALT 2024 Plenary Lectures 

The 10th Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology

These lectures will be live-streamed via  CLSP’s YouTube channel.

Wednesday, June 26th, 10:45 am EST

Speaker : Lale Akanur , Boğaziçi University

Title: 3D Human Body Modeling

Location : Hackerman B17

Abstract: Understanding the actions of humans is important for a range of applications: Surveillance, human-computer or human-robot interaction, or sign language understanding.  Even before the availability of 3D sensors, analysis-by-synthesis approaches used 3D human body models. With the availability of 3D sensors, inferring and using 3D models of the human body became the standard. In this talk, I will start from the basics of 3D vision: Acquisition, representation, and inferring 3D from monocular images. Then I will move on to 3D human body models; recent work on human pose and shape estimation. I will introduce work on human motion modeling and conclude with how these use LLMs for human motion synthesis.

Bio : Lale Akarun is a professor of Computer Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Engineering of NYU, in 1992. She has served as Vice President for Research at Bogazici between 2012-2016. Since 2018, she is the vice president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Her research areas are in image processing and computer vision, and in particular, processing of faces and gestures. She has supervised over 70 graduate theses and published more than 200 scholarly papers in scientific journals and refereed conferences. She has conducted research projects in biometrics, face recognition, hand gesture recognition, human-computer interaction, and sign language recognition. 

Wednesday, July 3rd, 10:45 am EST

Speaker :  Megan Ansdell , National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Location:  Hackerman B17

Title / Abstract: TBD

Bio : Megan Ansdell is a Program Officer in the Planetary Science Division (PSD) and the Astrophysics Division (APD) at NASA Headquarters. For APD, she serves as the Program Scientist for the Great Observatory Maturation Program (GOMAP) and the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). For PSD, she serves as the Planetary Protection Lead for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program and the Sample Receiving Project (SRP) as well as the Lead for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). In 2023, Megan was awarded the NASA Early Career Achievement Medal.

Before joining NASA in 2020, Megan was a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, where she held a joint position with the Center for Computational Astrophysics and Center for Computational Mathematics. In this role, she developed machine learning algorithms and other computational methods for studying young stars and their protoplanetary disks. Before this, Megan was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences, where she applied deep learning models to exoplanet transit classification with NASA’s Frontier Development Lab and conducted demographic studies of protoplanetary disks using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission.

Megan obtained her PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Hawaii in 2017 with a thesis on demographic studies of protoplanetary disks, which won the International Astronomical Union’s PhD Prize for Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy in 2017 as well as the University of Hawaii’s Doctoral Student Excellence in Research Award in 2016. Before her PhD, Megan earned a master’s degree in International Science and Technology Policy from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she researched and advocated for international cooperation in human space exploration; her thesis on language protocols for international human spaceflight won the 2011 Sacknoff Prize for Space History. Megan has also obtained a master’s degree in Space Studies from the International Space University in France and a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Tuesday, July 9th, 10:45 am EST

Speaker :  Gordon Wichern , Mitsubishi Electrical Research Lab (MERL)

Bio : Gordon’s research interests are at the intersection of signal processing and machine learning applied to speech, music, and environmental sounds. Prior to joining MERL, Gordon worked at iZotope inc. developing audio signal processing software, and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he worked in radar target tracking.

Wednesday, July 17th, 10:45 am EST

Speaker : Alberto Accomazzi , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Bio : After receiving a Doctorate in Physics from the University of Milan in 1988, Alberto worked on image processing and analysis projects at the Center for Astrophysics, applying computer vision techniques to astronomical image classification problems. In 1994 he joined the ADS project as a developer and focused on the implementation of the ADS Search Engine and Article archive. In 2007 he became program manager of the ADS and in 2015 took the additional role of Principal Investigator. He currently serves on the scientific advisory board of the high-energy INSPIRE information system, on the Next Generation IT advisory board for arXiv, and as current vice-chair of the International Virtual Astronomy Alliance (IVOA) Working group on Semantics. He referees for various scholarly publications and is an editor of the journal Astronomy & Computing.

Tuesday, July 23th, 10:45 am EST

Speaker : Dan Jurafsk , Stanford University

Bio : Dan Jurafsky is Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook “Speech and Language Processing”, and co-created with Chris Manning one of the first massively open online courses, Stanford’s course in Natural Language Processing. His trade book “The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu” was a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award.

Dan received a B.A in Linguistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley, was a postdoc 1992-1995 at the International Computer Science Institute, and was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder until moving to Stanford in 2003.

His research ranges widely across computational linguistics; special interests include natural language understanding, human-human conversation, the relationship between human and machine processing, and the application of natural language processing to the social and behavioral sciences. He also works on the linguistics of food and the linguistics of Chinese.

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Speaker : Debra Matthews , Johns Hopkins University

Bio : Debra JH Mathews, PhD, MA, is the Associate Director for Research and Programs for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and a Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As the Associate Director for Research and Programs, Dr. Mathews organizes Berman Institute programs including the Seminar Series, Hecht-Levi Symposia, Charm City Colloquia, and the Haywood Memorial Lecture.  She also tracks the Institute’s research portfolio and serves as the point of contact for requests to participate in research-related JHU committees and project groups. She also runs the  Genomics and Society Mentorship Program  and serves as the Chair of the Berman Institute’s  Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity (IDARE) Committee . Within the  Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA) , Dr. Mathews serves as the Ethics & Governance Lead. In this role, she leads work focused on the ethical, societal, and governance implications of autonomous systems, and identifies opportunities across IAA for the integration of ethics and governance work and priorities.

Dr. Mathews’s academic work focuses on ethics and policy issues raised by emerging technologies, with particular focus on genetics, stem cell science, neuroscience, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Mathews is a member of the steering committee of  The Hinxton Group , an international collective of scientists, ethicists, policymakers and others, interested in ethical and well-regulated science, and whose work focuses primarily on stem cell research. She has been an active member of the  International Neuroethics Society  since 2006, has been on the Society’s Board of Directors since 2015, and is currently serving as President of the Society. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Mathews has spent time at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and the National Academy of Medicine working in various capacities on science policy.

Dr. Mathews earned her PhD in genetics from Case Western Reserve University, as well as a concurrent Master’s in bioethics. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in genetics at Johns Hopkins, and the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities.

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