Come hear an enchanting story of a young man from the hills of Kentucky who dreamed of teaching linguistics at a university. Unfortunately for him, there was a shortage of teaching positions when he finally got his Ph.D. Discover how he used what he learned as a linguist to land a job at a government spy agency and then a renowned physics laboratory. Along the way you'll find out about his dissertation, which involved tricking machine translation software into making a custom spellchecker for native Japanese speakers writing in English. So come along on an entertaining journey that will show you how traditional spellchecking works, teach you some government slang, and inspire you to find novel ways to apply what you've learned in your field.
Sponsored by Underlings and the Department of Linguistics.
