Doctor Honoris Causa Awarded to Professor Aravind Joshi












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            * Doctor Honoris Causa Awarded to Professor Aravind Joshi
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            On the 30th October Charles University in Prague awarded Professor Aravind Joshi the honor

            doctor honoris causa in physics and mathematics. This was done in recognition of his achie
            contributions to his field of computational and formal linguistics. The ceremony was held 
            of the historic Carolinum Building. During this Professor Joshi made a speech expressing h

            the award, he also told the story of how he came to Charles University in Prague during th
            to do guest lecturing among other things. The University gave him the award as a result of
            Aravind's numerous achievements and publications within his field. Many of which have dire

            research conducted at Charles University in Prague, furthering their progress in computati
            greatly.

            Aravind Joshi was born on 5th August 1929 in Pune, India. He studied at first in his nativ
            India Institute of Science before moving to America where he now currently resides. In 196
            Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Fro

            been awarded many times, for example the IJCAI award for research excellence in 1997, the 
            in 2003, and the Benjamin Franklin medal in 2005 the Rumelhart prize in 2003. He was also 
            of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

            To date his research concerns itself primarily with integrating languages with computers. 
            research looks at how computers can be improved to have a better understanding and recogni
            languages. This is an exciting area of development as I am sure we have all encountered fr

            computer's inability to recognise words we have typed or are searching for. Professor Josh
            for the defining of the tree-adjoining grammar system which is very important for TAG syst
            as part of the world of automatic programming of languages. He is also the author of hundr

            on his field and related topics.
            Professor Aravind Joshi is also currently involved in a collaboration project with his own
            the faculty of Mathematics and Physics here at Charles University in Prague. The work is c

            the creation of an annotated computer corpus and the analysis of discourse. Due to the pro
            both universities are submitting proposals to extend the collaboration to 2015. Aside form
            continues his Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became the co-foun

            Institute of Cognitive Science.


                                                                                                      
                            Keziah Garratt-Smithson is a second year student currently on an ERASMUS p
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