The Division of History of Chemistry (HIST) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) solicits nominations for the 2006 Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry. This award, first given in 2002, honors the memory of the late Sidney M. Edelstein, who established the Dexter Award in 1956, and continues the tradition of the Dexter Award for Outstanding Achieve...

Honors and Awards • Yahoo! Graduate Teaching Award, 2013 • Runner-up at Cornell Startup Weekend, 2012 • SIGMOD 2011 Best Paper Award for “Entangled Queries: Enabling Declarative Datadriven Coordination” • Certificate of Achievement for outstanding contributions as a Teaching Assistant, Fall 2010 • Autodesk Fellowship, Cornell University, 2009-2010 • Bigyan Sinha Memorial Award, 2009 • O. P. Jin...

This article is a perspective on some important developments in semantics and in computational linguistics over the past forty years. It reviews two lines of research that lie at opposite ends of the field: semantics and morphology. The semantic part deals with issues from the 1970s such as discourse referents, implicative verbs, presuppositions, and questions. The second part presents a brief ...

Jeffrey Heer is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He then “betrayed” Berkeley to join the Stanford Computer Science faculty (2009–2013) before moving to UW (2013–). Heer is also a co-founder (with Sean Kandel and Joe Hellerstein)...

First of all, I am overwhelmed and humbled by the honor the ACL Executive Committee has shown me, an honor that should be shared by the colleagues and students I’ve been lucky enough to have around me this past decade-and-a-half while I’ve been engaged in the FrameNet Project at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. I’ve been asked to say something about the evolution of the...