Announcement: Appointment of Creole specialist, Mason Integrated Technologies

[Scott McGinnis]

Date:  Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:46:31 EDT
From:  MIT2USA at aol.com
Subject:  Appointment Made to Promote Development of Creole Language
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New Chair of Board of Advisors at MIT2

August 25, 2000
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2), a software developer
and language processing solutions service provider for Creole
and less-prevalent languages, has appointed Dr. Michel DeGraff
to the new corporate officer position of Chair of the Board of
Advisors. DeGraff will occupy this position in addition to his
teaching and research responsibilities as Associate Professor
of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

DeGraff, a native speaker of Haitian Creole, specializes in
linguistic theory, language contact, language change / creation,
socio-cultural aspects of Caribbean communities, as well as
theoretical, methodological, educational, and socio-political
aspects of Creole studies.

MIT2 President Marilyn Mason states: "Michel DeGraff has
a wide range of experience with an undergraduate degree in
Computer Science, Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science with a focus on (Computational) Linguistics, technical
experience obtained on staff at the Linguistics & Artificial
Intelligence departments of AT&T Bell Labs, and several
teaching and research positions in academia over the past
10 years. This kind of background is why MIT2, a company
that focusses on collaborative networking and partnerships,
specifically chose DeGraff as the main liaison with external
advisors."

DeGraff's primary role will be to coordinate MIT2's external
advisors who will help to evaluate the company's Research
and Development efforts for Creole language software
products.

For more information, please contact:

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617 247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617 262-8923
E-mail: mit2usa at aol.com
Web: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Linguistics & Philosophy Department
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 USA
Web: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/degraff.home.html