Ralf Brown

About....

Ralf Brown is a Senior Systems Scientist (Research Faculty) at Carnegie Mellon University's [picture, campus panorama] Language Technologies Institute (formerly the Center for Machine Translation) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [sunset picture, panorama] working on example-based machine translation and language technologies-driven data recovery (and formerly on the Pangloss, DIPLOMAT/TONGUES, Generalized Example-Based Machine Translation, RADD/LingWear, AVENUE, Topic Detection&Tracking, MUCHMORE, GALE, and MTLAB projects). He is well-known in cyberspace for maintaining the Interrupt List and various other programs, and has co-authored a number of books.

Ralf's Informational Pages

Bibliography of my writings
Lecture Notes
Undocumented Information (including Pentium info)
Locating Information on the Web
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Privacy[*] and Civil Liberties
- [*] You can be tracked by your mouse clicks!
US Government Sites
Television
On the Lighter Side
Digital Imaging
(the following links take you to other sites)
- My photo albums at PBase, ImageEvent, and Zenfolio
  (note: all public albums reachable via PBase)
  Newest albums listed here
- Featured Albums: PittStop Lindy Hop 2012 :: Cleveland Lindy Exchange :: Swing Fling 2012 :: Herrang Dance Camp 2012 Week 3 :: DC Lindy Exchange (DCLX) 2012> :: Steel City Blues Festival 2012 :: Renaissance Festival 2011 :: SCS Day 2010 :: Dublin, Ireland :: Wings Over Pittsburgh 2008 :: Kennywood Park
- Pictures of mine have been picked up by/appeared in
  1. The BBC (TONGUES field test);
  2. ASTM International's newsletter Standardization News, Feb 2003 (Cathedral of Learning);
  3. Terra Lycos Mexico, 13-Feb-03 (Hollywood Walk of Fame);
  4. Centro Flamenco de Pittsburgh;
  5. "SF Bay Area Architecture Supplement" in Surface Magazine, Issue 43 (pages 10, 11, and 12);
  6. An interview with Bernardine Dias for the SCS Interview Series (dancing in the SCS Day talent show).
  7. The Wings Over Pittsburgh official site's 2004 Photo Gallery (my album)
- Photo Exhibition: I exhibited photographs of Japan at Kiva Han on South Craig Street during April 2003.
Science Fiction Words -- lately, I've been involved with a project to find the earliest uses of SF terms for the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (external link).

The local Web:

The SCS Home Page and other personal home pages.
The CMU Home Page
The CMU Library

Stewart Clamen's TV page

Miscellaneous

My Erdos Number is 4:
Paul Erdos -> Henryk Minc -> Marvin Marcus -> John Chollet -> Ralf Brown.

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(Last updated 12-Aug-12)