Hi everyone, An event not to be missed :-) Qian Hu (BU PhD in Applied Linguistics, 1993; currently Chief Scientist of Speech Technologies and Senior Principal Artificial Intelligence Scientist at the MITRE Corporation) will be presenting our first Linguistics Colloquium of the fall semester, co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute, on Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 5:30 PM in KCB 101. She will speak about “Speech Technology & Applications." For further details, see: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/pictures/qian.pdf <http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/pictures/qian.pdf> This is also a Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/894385890688877/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/894385890688877/> Everyone is welcome - please share the information with others who might be interested. Cheers, Carol Neidle --- Carol Neidle Professor of Linguistics and French Director of the Linguistics Program Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences Address: BU CAS Linguistics Program 621 Commonwealth Ave. - Room 101 Boston, MA 02215 Map and directions: http://tinyurl.com/25bpjs <http://tinyurl.com/25bpjs> Contact: Phone: 617-353-6218 E-mail: carol@bu.edu <mailto:carol@bu.edu> On the Web: Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/BULinguistics <http://www.facebook.com/BULinguistics> Website: http://ling.bu.edu/ <http://ling.bu.edu/> Profile page: http://ling.bu.edu/people/neidle <http://ling.bu.edu/people/neidle> Drop-in office hours are listed on the above website. Also available at other days and times, by appointment: Book online @ http://tinyurl.com/book-neidle <http://tinyurl.com/book-neidle> or send email