Dan Jurafsky

Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, and Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University.

He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Linguistics Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dan is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing", and co-created with Chris Manning the first massively open online course in Natural Language Processing. His trade book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" was a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award. His research ranges widely across NLP as well as its applications to the behavioral and social sciences.

History:
Dan was born in New York and grew up in California, received a B.A in Linguistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley, was a postdoc 1992-1995 at the International Computer Science Institute, and was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1996-2003 until moving to Stanford in 2003.

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):