It's not the mortality rate, stupid!

Abstract

Alexis Manaster Ramer – Polish-born American computer scientist and linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago), published on theoretical computer science, foundations of mathematics, linguistic theory, historical linguistics, poetics, and history of science, and has taught both computer science and linguistics. More recently, he has also lectured on the history and methodology of medicine. He is the founder of the ACL special interest group on Mathematical linguistics (SIGMOL) and the organizer of the first Mathematics of Language conference. He is honored by a festschrift edited by Fabrice Cavoto, The Linguist’s Linguist: A Collection of Papers in Honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer, Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2002.