James
A.(Jim)
Mason
Professor Emeritus of
Computer
Science and Senior Scholar
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I have retired from teaching to devote more time to my research.
For matters regarding the Computer Science degree programs please see
the
Department
of Computer Science and Engineering web site.
My research involves natural-language understanding --
specifically,
writing software to understand English in limited application domains.
I am continuing to develop object-oriented software tools to create and
edit English grammars in the form of graphical networks called Augmented
Syntax Diagrams (ASDs), and to parse English utterances with
ASD grammars.
The tools are now available in Java implementations, free of
charge. To access them, see the ASD home page :
Here's a link to one of my favourite sites: Astronomy
Picture of the Day
This page contains quotes from Carl Sagan that I agree with: Pale Blue Dot
And here's another quote, from Kenneth L. Patton: a
humanist call to worship
Finally, here's a little philosophical
contribution of my own: The
cousinhood of humankind
revised 2008 Mar 4; minor correction 2009 Aug 17