Adam Hesterberg
Students who excel at math competitions like the AMC 10 and 12 might be interested in participating in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad coming up in February. Similar to the USAMO, this national test is used to select a team to compete internationally in the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Like Math Circles and international problem solving competitions, these linguistics competitions have their origins in Eastern Europe. They also appear to draw on many of the same problem solving and thinking talents of successful Math Olympians. In this interview with Adam Hesterberg, a former MATHCOUNTS and USAMO winner, explains how he prepared for his win in last year’s ILO.
For those of us in the Metroplex area it appears that the University of North Texas in Denton will be offering the NACLO this year.
[…] and problem solving skills can lead to a very wide variety of careers. With the upcoming NACLO competition and a lecture on Natural Language Processing, we will profile the emerging field of Computational […]