Kevin Gold is the Norma Wilentz Hess Visiting Assistant Professor at Wellesley College. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2008, and his B.A. from Harvard in 2001. His paper on robotic word learning earned Best Paper at the International Conference on Development and Learning in 2007. When he is not thinking up new ideas for his research lab or teaching courses, he enjoys reading really good novels, playing geeky games, listening to funny, clever music, and reading the webcomics xkcd and Dresden Codak.
Andreya Piplica is a senior at Wellesley College, whose current project is training support vector machines to recognize high pitch accents. She worked on the pretending project, which was submitted as an abstract to the IRIS Symposium in Nagoya, Japan and is being expanded into a paper for FLAIRS. She also examined the role of high pitch accents in brainstorming sessions as part of a multimodal evaluation of brainstorming success. When she is not in the Science Center, she enjoys reading pretty webcomics and works on writing and directing a musical called Jack in the Shutterbox.
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Alex Olivier is a junior at Wellelsey College. She is currently working on a games project that uses machine learning techniques to automatically convert Guitar Hero difficulty levels. Given an Expert level song, we will produce appropriate notes for the Difficult, Medium, and Easy levels using statistical machine translation. She also did worked on the pretending project. During Alex's precious moments of free time, she likes to look at instructables, make electronic clothing, and eat stove top popcorn.