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      • Secret Life of Pronouns
      • The Language of Food
      • Far from the Madding Gerund
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About us

Expanding Access in Computer Science and Linguistics (EXCSL, pronounced “excel”), is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting equity in education, especially in the fields of computer science and linguistics.

EXCSL is designated as a 509 (a) (2) Public Charity and tax-exempt under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).

It is registered in the State of New York (EIN 88-4427136).

In particular, EXCSL focuses on involving girls and underrepresented minorities. We are also helping students in India who have little or no internet access and do not speak English. The students we are working with have previously been unable to benefit from the efforts of non-profit organizations based in the West, whose training is usually conducted in English.

The Directors of EXCSL are Rishi Mago (Founder and CEO), Kevin Lynch, and Aditi Dubey.

Senior Advisors to EXCSL are Dr. Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) and Emily Read (AI4ALL).

Rishi Mago, the Founder and CEO, started EXCSL because of his passion about computer science and linguistics. He wanted to expand the access to resources and training in these fields.

You can email us at rishimago@expandingaccess.org. We would love to hear about your interest in linguistics and any questions or thoughts you may have.

Advisors

Christiane Fellbaum, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Christiane Fellbaum is a Lecturer with Rank of Professor in the Program in Linguistics and in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.

She is a co-developer of the WordNet lexical database and a co-President of the Global WordNet Association.

Dr. Fellbaum is a winner of the Wolfgang Paul-Preis of the German Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and the Antonio Zampolli Prize of the European Lexical Resource Organization.

She has published widely on lexical semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, and ontology.


Emily Read



Emily Reid is a computer scientist, educator, and entrepreneur. Emily is the VP of the Open Learning Program at AI4ALL and the owner of E. E. Reid Consulting, LLC, where she advises and creates curricul for schools and businesses to help them build inclusive computing education programs.

Previously, Emily was the founding Director of Education at Girls Who Code, where she was responsible for ensuring that GWC programs were unrivaled in delivering quality computer science education. During her time at GWC, Emily’s team taught over 30,000 girls to code and trained over 2,000 computer science educators. Before Girls Who Code, Emily was a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, and has published research in computational linguistics and cybersecurity. She speaks and writes on diversity, education, and technology.

Emily holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Tufts University. She believes strongly that we can change the world for the better through a diverse and inclusive tech industry, using computer science as a tool to solve pressing social problems.

News

News

February 9, 2019

So honored to have presented a linguistics research poster today at the international meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Portland, Oregon! See photos below with my mentors James Pennebaker, PhD, and Ryan Boyd, PhD.

At my poster presentation at SPSP 2019 with James Pennebaker, PhD
At my poster presentation at SPSP 2019 with Ryan Boyd, PhD

February 4, 2019

Lavender Languages and Linguistics 26 will be held from May 2 to 4, 2019. The 26th year of this annual conference. I wish I could attend but it is in Sweden this year. 

Lavender Languages and Linguistics 26

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Book recommendation: The Language of Food

Movie recommendation: Arrival

This was a very interesting movie about the arrival of aliens in which the central character is an expert translator. How can she decipher the language of the aliens using her skills in linguistics?

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Book recommendation: Far from the Madding Gerund

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