Bio

Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, and Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. His research focuses on NLP, including its implications for society and its applications to linguistics and the other cognitive and social sciences. He a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACL, the LSA, and AAAS. His trade book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" was an international bestseller and a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award. Dan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley.

Fun picture from the archives: Dan in 1985 in Chinese class in Beijing (I'm in the second row from the front, second-ish from the right in the stylish 北京大学 tanktop):