Hans Uszkoreit was born in Rostock (Germany) in 1950. He studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. While he was studying there, he worked as an editor and writer for the magazine Zitty. It has to be said that this magazine was co-founded by him. Then, he was given a Fulbright Grant and continued his studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The Fulbright Grant was created by J. William Fulbright (senator of Arkansas in the period of the Second World War) and the reason for creating this educational help was to make inhabitants from Europe and the United States understand one another better. It was also a good way to encourage tolerance and understanding between countries.
Returning to Hans Uszkoreit’s stay at Austin, not only did he study but he also worked in a machine translation project at the Linguistics Research Center. Finally, in 1984 he received the Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. Since then, he has been doing several things. Indeed, he is member of a wide range of associations (European Academy of Sciences, European Network of Language and Speech …)
Nowadays, the scholar is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. Apart from serving as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) where he heads the DFKI Language Technology Lab. Moreover, he has written a lot of publications and he has also written poems in English and in German. In conclusion, Hans Uszkoreit is an excellent professor and researcher, so people should take him into account when talking about linguistics and computer science.
References:
- Hans Uszkoreit (2009, May, 25) In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved : 8:00, June 10, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Uszkoreit
- Hans Uszkoreit Short Curriculum Vitae. In Hans Uszkoreit Personal Homepage. Retrieved 9:08, June 10, 2009, from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/bio.html
- Hans Uszkoreit (2009) In Videolectures. Retrieved 10:00, June 10, 2009, from http://videolectures.net/hans_uszkoreit/
