Category Archives: Life

I am in Chicago for the annual meeting of the LSA (Linguistic Society of America), mainly to do a bunch of interviewing of candidates for a job opening in my department. To fortify myself, I needed a balanced breakfast this … Continue reading →

Yesterday was our first serious winter storm of the season. I thank the gods that the National Weather Service was right in the forecast, the National Weather Service was forthright, I could follow their recommendations. The details: I get my … Continue reading →

The Master writes: Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief A rapidly spreading kind of trauma now affects millions of people every day, but the English language hasn’t yet been extended to deal with it. Well-known neologisms like jet lag’ androad … Continue reading →

Donna Coveney, staff photographer for the MIT news office, took some portraits of me for a story on my recent promotion to full professor. These are actually pretty good: