[Indic-computing-devel] What are people working on?

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@ya...>]

I would be really interested to hear about the people who are active on =
these lists so far and get an idea of who they are and what they are =
working on.

I am a graduate student in CS at the Univ of Washington in Seattle.  I =
have done research in the areas of programming languages and compilers =
and I have also done some work in development environments at IBM =
Research in Hawthorne, NY.  I did my Masters thesis designing a =
high-level data representation language for modern compilers.

I became interested in indic language computing while on leave from UW =
last year, when I worked with the Honey Bee Project in Ahmedabad.  =
During this work I became very frustrated with the lack of support of =
Indian languages in computing (esp. using CDAC's tools), and I thought =
that this is definitely something I would like to contribute to. =20

I am thinking of turning my Ph.D. research in this direction, and =
looking for good research problems that could lead to a thesis.  I am =
developing some of my own ideas for research projects that I would be =
happy to discuss.  So far I have been looking at software engineering / =
programming language design issues in localization, as well as support =
for local language from an application level. =20

Id also like to hear from other people working in this area to see what =
kinds of research problems are out there that others are working on to =
see if there is anything I could contribute or collaborate on.  Also if =
I do take up some work at the application level, Id like to make sure I =
am coordinated with the ongoing work at the systems level you guys are =
working on...

I guess this is a bit off-topic from the current discussions on this =
list, so excuse the intrusion please...

Regards,
Tapan

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Tapan S. Parikh
Department of Computer Science
University of Washington
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tapan