{"id":17,"date":"2014-01-24T19:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha-leonis.lids.mit.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2015-09-14T23:14:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:14:30","slug":"about-cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alpha-leonis.lids.mit.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/berwick-newp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-492\" alt=\"berwick-newp\" src=\"http:\/\/alpha-leonis.lids.mit.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/berwick-newp.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/berwick-newp.jpg 256w, https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/berwick-newp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/berwick-newp-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nProfessor Berwick and his research group investigate\u00a0 computation and cognition, including computational models of language acquisition, language processing, and language change, within the context of machine learning, modern grammatical theory, and mathematical models of dynamical systems.\u00a0 A second line of inquiry is probing the biological and evolutionary underpinnings of human language, including models of language change as well as its biologically-grounded evolutionary origins, in particular, in birdsong.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Berwick has been the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award as well as the MIT Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, MIT&#8217;s highest\u00a0 honor for junior faculty.\u00a0 He has also received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He helped found and run MIT&#8217;s Center for Biological and Computational Learning for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Berwick and his research group investigate\u00a0 computation and cognition, including computational models of language acquisition, language processing, and language change, within the context of machine learning, modern grammatical theory, and mathematical models of dynamical systems.\u00a0 A second line of inquiry is probing the biological and evolutionary underpinnings of human language, including models of language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwick.mit.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}