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March 9, 2009
2010 transportation plan to be unveiled
The city’s Olympic transportation plan for the 2010 games is to be released this week, providing long-awaited details on how visitors, athletes and local commuters can expect to get around next February. Anthony Perl, director of SFU’s urban studies program, specializes in urban and regional transportation and can provide comment once the details are known.
Anthony Perl, 778.782.7887; aperl@sfu.ca
Puzzles to tax young minds
Six Metro Vancouver area high school students are moving on to the next phase of a contest designed to tax their brains and give them a stimulating introduction to the field of linguistics. SFU will host the five-hour invitational round of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad on Wednesday, March 11 (9 a.m. – 3 p.m.) in the Education building, Rm 8651 at the Burnaby campus. Maite Taboada, an associate professor of linguistics at SFU, says the puzzles they must solve, whether deciphering Braille in Japanese or solving code-like phrases in ancient languages, draw on analytical skill. Winners move on to an international contest in Poland this summer. SFU hosted the first round for local students in February and is the only Canadian university to have students move on to the next round.
http://www.sfu.ca/linguistics/undergraduate/naclo.html
http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/
Maite Taboada, 778.782.5585; mtaboada@sfu.ca
The city’s Olympic transportation plan for the 2010 games is to be released this week, providing long-awaited details on how visitors, athletes and local commuters can expect to get around next February. Anthony Perl, director of SFU’s urban studies program, specializes in urban and regional transportation and can provide comment once the details are known.
Anthony Perl, 778.782.7887; aperl@sfu.ca
Puzzles to tax young minds
Six Metro Vancouver area high school students are moving on to the next phase of a contest designed to tax their brains and give them a stimulating introduction to the field of linguistics. SFU will host the five-hour invitational round of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad on Wednesday, March 11 (9 a.m. – 3 p.m.) in the Education building, Rm 8651 at the Burnaby campus. Maite Taboada, an associate professor of linguistics at SFU, says the puzzles they must solve, whether deciphering Braille in Japanese or solving code-like phrases in ancient languages, draw on analytical skill. Winners move on to an international contest in Poland this summer. SFU hosted the first round for local students in February and is the only Canadian university to have students move on to the next round.
http://www.sfu.ca/linguistics/undergraduate/naclo.html
http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/
Maite Taboada, 778.782.5585; mtaboada@sfu.ca