mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)
linguist, coder, teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)’s Links: Personal Website | Twitter
Biography:
Linguist, coder, and teacher. A native English/Japanese bilingual and advanced Mandarin speaker. Currently a PhD student in Linguistics at MIT with primary interests in formal syntax/semantics.
Spent one year in Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar upon graduation. Recently worked at Mozilla Labs on Ubiquity, an experimental multilingual natural language interface for the browser.
Past Talks
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Extending the Browser with Jetpack 4.60
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Ignite WordCamp: You’d Beta’ Test Your Plugins! 4.75
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Getting Into The Loop 4.65
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Mashup the Browser with Ubiquity and Jetpack 4.50
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Extending WordPress with (Web)Hooks 4.59
Testimonials About mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine):
- "absolutely awesome speaker. heard him do a talk in both English & Japanese in Tokyo (simultaneously)... very impressive, and the English part was fascinating :) more »