[Mitworld] New: Lees on Cancer, Fong on Language

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 27 | February 20, 2008
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[NEW LESSONS IN CANCER RESEARCH]

SPEAKER:
Jacqueline Lees
Associate Director
MIT Center for Cancer Research;
Professor of Biology


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/524/>

[QUOTE]
"Cancer is really a disease of aging."
-- Jacqueline Lees


EVENT HOST: MIT Museum <http://web.mit.edu/museum/>

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[STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSING: RELIABLE MODELS OF LANGUAGE?]

SPEAKER:
Sandiway Fong
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of
Computer Science, University of Arizona

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/525/>

[QUOTE]
"If computers are so smart, why can't they use simple English?"
-- Sandiway Fong


EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
<http://lids.mit.edu/>

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MIT Communications Forum presents

NBC's Heroes:
Appointment TV to Engagement TV

Mark Warshaw
Writer, Producer, Director, Heroes

Jesse Alexander
Co-Executive Producer and Writer, Heroes

Moderated by
Henry Jenkins
Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies
Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT
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