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  • Dianne Harris named dean of UW College of Arts & Sciences

    University of Washington Provost Mark A. Richards today announced Dianne Harris will become dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, beginning Sept. 1.

    UW News
  • Dedicated to Dialects

    Through the study of dialects, Elijah Pasco has combined his love of linguistics and theater. 

    June 2021 Perspectives
  • Computational language models can further environmental degradation and language bias

    Dr. Emily M. Bender, a professor of linguistics, discusses the potential effects of natural language processing technology.

    The Daily
  • 2 Yup'ik Engineers Team Up To Build Groundbreaking Yugtun Technology

    Two Yup'ik engineers, Christopher Egalaaq Liu and Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, who recieved his masters in computational linguistics from the UW, have worked on a new advanced Yugtun translation tool.

    KYUK
  • Yup’ik engineers team up to build apps for Yugtun language learning

    Two Yup’ik engineers are trying to push the Yugtun language into the future using technology. Their latest project opens the door for Yugtun autocorrect, grammar checkers and automatic subtitles on Yup’ik videos. Lonny Alaskuk Strunk developed the technology for Yugtun.com during his master’s program in computational linguistics at the University of Washington.

    KTOO
  • Large computer language models carry environmental, social risks

    Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics, has co-authored a new study with Angelina McMillan-Major, a doctoral student in linguistics, about language-learning technologies.

    UW News
  • ‘This is bigger than just Timnit’: How Google tried to silence a critic and ignited a movement

    Big Tech has used its power to control the field of AI ethics and avoid accountability. Now, the ouster of Timnit Gebru from Google is putting the movement for equitable tech in the spotlight. Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics at the UW, is quoted.

    Fast Company
  • JSIS alum now teaching First Nations language

    Adam Werle (BA International Studies & Linguistics 1998), now teaches Nuu-chah-nulth to Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellows.

    Canadian Studies Center
  • People Have Used They/Them as Singular Pronouns for Hundreds of Years

    Battles of grammar, for the most part, play out in English classrooms and in the pages of style guides. Rarely do arguments over split infinitives and Oxford commas venture beyond the walls of academia. But one linguistic phenomenon lands in the limelight every so often, and it’s a word you know well: the pronoun “they” — along with its derivatives “them” and “their.” Kirby Conrod, a lecturer in linguistics at the UW, is quoted.

    Discover Magazine
  • Ousted Black Google Researcher: 'They Wanted To Have My Presence, But Not Me Exactly'

    On Wednesday, several of Timnit Gebru's former colleagues wrote a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking that she be reinstated, saying her departure has "had a demoralizing effect on the whole of our team." Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics at the UW, is quoted.

    NPR
  • The Value of a Non-STEM Major, with Dean Stacey

    College of Arts & Sciences Dean Stacey explains that there is an important civic, political, social, and cultural element to an education and that you can get that in a wide variety of majors.

    01/05/2021
  • Six unique majors that may not be on your radar

    Interested in the College of Arts & Sciences but don’t know what to study? Here are six majors that you may not have discovered yet.

    The Daily
  • Google Scientist’s Abrupt Exit Exposes Rift in Prominent AI Unit

    Google’s decision to part ways with a prominent researcher laid bare divisions within the company’s artificial intelligence unit and subjected its leader, the lauded software engineer Jeff Dean, to widespread scorn. Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics at the UW, is quoted.

    Bloomberg
  • Three Elected to LSA Executive Committee

    Alicia Wassink, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory at the University of Washington, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

     

    Linguistic Society of America
  • When Takeout Takes You Across the World

    Aaron Versoza (BA, Lingustics, 2009) and Amber Manuguid (BFA, DXARTS, 2009), discuss how their restaurant has adapted to COVID-19.

    UW Magazine

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