[Mitworld] New: Maguire and Cooper on Fantasy, Niyogi on Computational Language Learning

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 19 | January 3, 2008
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[THE WRITING OF FANTASY]

Roger Sutton moderates this disucssion between Gregory Maguire and Susan
Cooper, on writing fantasy for children and adults.

SPEAKERS:
Gregory Maguire
Author

Susan Cooper
Author

Roger Sutton
Editor in Chief, The Horn Book and Author


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/508/>

[QUOTE]
"When I sense I'm approaching a story that's going to have to be told
in a fantastic way, it is usually because it's about something so
upsetting to me that I wouldn't trust myself to write about it in a
naturalistic way."
-- Gregory Maguire


EVENT HOST: Office of Government and Community Relations
<http://web.mit.edu/govt-relations/www/>

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[THE COMPUTATIONAL NATURE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING]

In part 3 of this symposium Partha Niyogi discusses his research on
language learning and how the principles of natural selection and
variation in a population come into play not only when exploring how
children learn language but how languages alter over time.

SPEAKER:
Partha Niyogi
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Statistics and the Physical
Science Collegiate Division
University of Chicago


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/507/>

[QUOTE]
"Go back 1000 years and look at English. English used to have different
parameter settings: 'Now I will also the great Alexander considering
be.'...They were speaking a language that is unrecognizable to us
today."
-- Partha Niyogi


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

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