Jason M. Adams
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Computational linguist |
| Location | Pittsburgh, PA, United States |
| Introduction | My name is Jason M. Adams and I work at a rapidly growing startup in Atlanta after recently graduating with my masters from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My main areas of research were with recommender systems and word sense disambiguation. Now I work on sentiment analysis. And I am obsessed with my two dogs. |
| Interests | Computational linguistics, machine translation, machine learning, science fiction and fantasy, astronomy |
| Favorite movies | Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, The Butterfly Effect, Tideland, Big Fish, The Fountain, Pi: Faith in Chaos, Legends of the Fall, When Harry Met Sally, Proof, Memoirs of a Geisha, 300, The Descent, Donnie Darko, Batman Begins, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jacob's Ladder |
| Favorite music | Regina Spektor, Johnny Cash, various folk (irish, british, southern american), Loreena McKennitt, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, A Silver Mt. Zion, Slumber Party, whatever strikes my fancy |
| Favorite books | A Song of Ice and Fire (series by George R. R. Martin), The Wheel of Time (series by Robert Jordan), anything by Philip K. Dick, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Stardust, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Black Company (series by Glen Cook), Dune (all the Dune books by Frank Herbert), Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, most stuff by Michael Moorcock, Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov, most Midkemia and Kelewan books by Raymond E. Feist |