Dr+James+E.+Hoard+Bio

=**Dr. James E. Hoard**=

923 North K St., Tacoma, WA 98403

Dr. Hoard retired from Boeing in 2002 as a Senior Manager, where he led the Boeing Natural Language Processing (NLP) group. Before joining Boeing in 1986, Dr. Hoard was a college professor at the Universities of Kansas, Victoria, and British Columbia, and at the University of Oregon (where he was Professor of Linguistics and English). The co-author of an introductory phonology text, he has published widely in linguistic theory, English linguistics, Amerindian languages of the Pacific Northwest, and natural language processing. Dr. Hoard is currently an Affiliate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington (Seattle), a member of the Computational Linguistics Advisory Board, and the chair of the UW Linguistics Advisory Board. He was the Local Arrangements Chair of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) held in Seattle in August of 2001. He has made many presentations to academic groups, government agencies, and industry forums. Locally, he serves as the treasurer of Save Our Bridge and as vice-president of the Tacoma Historical Society. He has curated several exhibits at the Tacoma Historical Society Exhibit Center, including Building Tacoma, The Mosquito Fleet, and Winter Memories. Dr. Hoard has a long-standing interest in political science, philosphy, and history, and he is writing a monograph on political philosphy.


 * Education: Ph.D., Univ. of Washington, 1967, Linguistics; M.A., Univ. of Washington, 1966, Linguistics; B.A., Univ. of Washington, 1963, Mathematics.**