Review for Fabrizio's PhD thesis

Wed Aug 27 14:48:23 UTC 2014

Professor Costa,
I'm quite sure you are perfect fo the job!
Given your experience and the fact that you belong to a Computer Science
Department, you fulfil all the required features from our PhD commitee.
After all, it is not that easy to find a person who is a professor in
computer scince, expert in signwriting, and with knowledge of image
processing.

Anyway, for your convenience, Fabrizio will send you the abstract of his
dissertation as soon as possible, so that you can better evaluate if you
are interested in revising it (this will require to prepare a true review
document to send to our PhD director).

Thanks again for your support!

Maria

P.S. - In order not to bore the whole list, if you prefer we can continue
communicating through our academic email. What do you think?

2014-08-27 16:13 GMT+02:00 Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa <
ac.rocha.costa at gmail.com>:

> Hi!
>
> I'm not sure I can help, but I'm willing to at least give a look at
> the dissertation or its abstract.
>
> Antônio Carlos
>
> 2014-08-27 10:59 GMT-03:00 Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com>:
> > SignWriting List
> > August 27, 2014
> >
> > Hello Maria, Fabrizio and Erika -
> >
> > Erika would be great if there is a linguistic element to Fabrizio’s
> work...
> >
> > I would also suggest Dr. Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Professor of
> Computer Sciences, from Brazil. It is because of Antonio Carlos, that
> SignWriting is in Brazil today. He contacted me in 1996, after finding
> SignWriting on the internet, and came to visit me here in my home in 1996.
> Dr. Rocha Costa was instrumental in spreading SignWriting in Brazil because
> his computer sciences students developed software related to writing sign
> languages, and he himself was the original developer of SWML and the SWEdit
> Program, which was and is used widely in Brazil and also influential in the
> world of software. Antonio Carlos was the advisor to Dr. Marianne Stumpf’s
> dissertation in Deaf Education research, which through Dr. Stumpf, spread
> SignWriting in the Deaf Community in Brazil. The SignWriting Symposium,
> with its 16 presenters from Brazil, is a testament to Dr. Rocha Costa’s
> work…I hope he can be of help to your computer science work, Fabrizio and
> Maria...
> >
> > Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa
> > Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG
> >
> > Web site:
> > http://rocha.c3.furg.br/
> >
> > Email:
> > ac.rocha.costa at gmail.com
> >
> > Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa - C3/PPGMC/FURG
> > Centro de Ciências Computacionais
> > Prog. Pós-grad. Modelagem Computacional
> > Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
> > 96.201-900 Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.
> > http://rocha.c3.furg.br
> >
> > Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa
> > Centro de Ciências Computacionais
> > (Anexo do Prédio 4, Sala C-03)
> > Av. Itália km 8 - Campus Carreiros
> > 96.203-900  Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.
> >
> > Fone: (53) 3293-6685
> >
> > SWML
> > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/swml/
> >
> > Sign Language Processing Workshop Lisbon 2004
> > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/lisbon/
> > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/lisbon/lisbon01.html
> >
> > Dr. Rocha Costa has a long list of papers on his web site..
> >
> > Hope this helps ;-)
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Aug 27, 2014, at 4:48 AM, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <
> erhoffma at OBERLIN.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >> Ah. I am a linguistic anthropologist, so may not be who you are looking
> for.
> >> Best,
> >> Erika
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Maria De Marsico <
> demarsico at di.uniroma1.it> wrote:
> >> Dear Erika,
> >> Thank you very much for your prompt offer.
> >> Italian is not an issue since the dissertation is written in English.
> However,  knowledge of image processing/optical character recognition is
> necessary ...
> >>
> >> Maria
> >>
> >> Il mercoledì 27 agosto 2014, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <
> erhoffma at oberlin.edu> ha scritto:
> >>
> >> I am an academic (I'm an associate professor of anthropology at Oberlin
> College)  and would be happy to help - but I don't have Italian competency,
> which I assume may be needed.
> >> Best,
> >> Erika
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Maria De Marsico <
> demarsico at di.uniroma1.it> wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >> I write you again for a different iuuse.
> >> Fabrizio has to discuss his PhD thesis which dealt with recognition of
> handwritten SignWriting glyphs. Before the final version, we need some
> reviewers from academy to commnt his work in some depth.
> >> Is there any person in the list who is in the position to do that? In
> that case, I would signal this person to out PhD head.
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> >> Maria
> >>
> >> --
> >>
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> >> Maria De Marsico
> >> Assistant professor
> >> Sapienza University of Rome
> >> Department of Computer Science
> >> Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy
> >> email: demarsico at di.uniroma1.it
> >> tel: +39 06 49918312
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> >>
> >
>
>
>
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> Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa - C3/PPGComp/FURG
> Centro de Ciências Computacionais
> Prog. Pós-grad. em Computação
> Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
> 96.203-900 Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.
> http://www.rocha.c3.furg.br
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