Interest in GSOC 2008

[Alex Escalona]

Thanks for the reply, Tomeu. I will be sure to contribute to the topics to
the best of my ability.

I'm looking forward to the meeting, as well as to helping advance OLPC's
mission, however possible.

Best,
Alex


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:

> 2008/3/21 Alex Escalona <aescalona at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am writing to express interest in the GSoC 2008 mentorship offered by
> the
> > One Laptop Per Child association. I am a first-year graduate student in
> > computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology's MSCS program.
> My
> > disciplinary interests include general topics in the broad field of
> > computational-linguistics, social issues in computer science,
> open-source
> > software, and programming in general. I have closely followed the
> > development of the OLPC's mission to make laptops available to children
> > around the world. In fact, I have blogged on a few opportunities on
> issues
> > related to the OLPC's work (see here and here, for posts on these topics
> at
> > http://randomatom.blogspot.com).
> >
> > In particular, I would be interested in helping further development in
> the
> > areas of speech-synthesis/TTS, especially as concerns localization of
> > languages and dialects, as well any general language-learning efforts at
> > OLPC, including eSpeak (TalknType and Speech Server), among others. I
> > completed numerous courses in Linguistics in my undergraduate studies in
> > Anthropology and Latin-American studies at the University of Chicago,
> > including a full year of introductory courses in semantics, phonetics,
> > morphology, syntax, and other general topics in linguistics. I have also
> > studied German, Russian, and Romani (a SE European language spoken by
> the
> > Roma people), and am a native-speaker of Spanish, my mother tongue. In
> > addition, I am versed in Java, and have programmed in C#, OCaml, C, C++,
> > SQL, MySQL. I have used SVN on several projects, including as a
> > collaborative version-control system. Moreover, I am currently enrolled
> in a
> > course on programming languages and translators which covers topics in
> > scanning, parsing, compiler design, and other topics of interest in
> > language-related applications.
> >
> > In conclusion, I would welcome the opportunity to speak more about my
> > interests in these areas, as well as to hear more about the OLPC's
> efforts
> > in general linguistic and socio-cultural applications.
>
> Hi, please consider joining us at the next sugar meeting that will
> have a special focus on TTS:
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004624.html
>
> Would be good if you could add to the topics in the wiki page mentioned
> there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
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