NLP pioneer Warren Weaver earned his PhD at UW-Madison
lucy3_li · x · 2026-08-31
While preparing an NLP history lecture, the author noted that Warren Weaver, famous for a 1949 memorandum that ignited machine translation research (before the term "artificial intelligence" was coined), completed his BS and PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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