Thomas “Tom” Lippincott is an associate research professor of computer science, the director of the Center for Digital Humanities, an affiliate in the Center for Language and Speech Processing, and a research scientist in the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. He holds a secondary appointment in the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.
Lippincott’s research focuses on how machine learning can support and facilitate traditional scholarship in the humanities, particularly the use of unsupervised models structured for interpretability and isomorphism with respect to a domain of interest.
He received his BA in philosophy and computer science from the University of Chicago (2006), MS in computer science from Columbia University (2008), and PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Cambridge (2015).
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The grants’ goal is to bring together diverse, multidisciplinary teams, leveraging the integration of AI and data science to tackle pressing challenges across disciplines.
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The winning proposals will receive up to $75,000 each to help innovate learning through technology.
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The Nexus Awards Program supports a diverse range of programming, research, and teaching at the university’s Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.