Martin Kay
Computer Scientist
Who is Martin Kay?
Martin Kay is a computer scientist known especially for his work in computational linguistics.
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1961. In 1958 he started to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, one of the earliest centers for research in what is now known as Computational Linguistics. In 1961, he moved to the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, USA, where he eventually became head of research in linguistics and machine translation. He left Rand in 1972 to become Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. In 1974, he moved to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Research Fellow. In 1985, while retaining his position at Xerox PARC, he joined the faculty of Stanford University half-time. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and Honorary Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University.
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- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge
( - 1961)
- Master of Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge
- Employment
- Stanford University
(1985 - ) - Research Fellow, PARC
(1974 - ) - Chair of the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
(1972 - 1974) - Head of research in linguistics and machine translation, RAND Corporation
(1961 - 1972)
- Stanford University
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on July 23, 2013
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