Welcome to my website!

Добро Пожаловать на мой вебсайт!

I hope you enjoy your visit.  I plan to launch this website in full when my life slows down.  If you are here early please feel free to have a pre-launch viewing at no charge, but there will be no popcorn served - so don't get your hopes up.

As one friend who found my site observed, it is "high on flashiness and low on informative content".  I apologize.  This has to take a back seat to the rest of my life, which is quite busy right now.  The following paragraphs are my lame attempt at updating those who wonder what I'm up to now.

I am living in Columbus, OH right now getting my Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Ohio State.  I am in my seventh year of the program (yikes!).   I just need to finish my dissertation and I'm done.  I am making an English-language spellchecker for people whose native language is Japanese. This spellchecker makes use of technology from statistical machine translation (using computers to translate). My technique can be used to create a customized spellchecker for a specific individual or a population of individuals who have similar spelling strategies. 

My most proud accomplishment is being a dad to 3 wonderful sons.

Daniel starts second grade this fall.  Carter turns 4 this fall (2011) and is extremely smart.  Benjamin will have his first birthday in February.

In short, I am much more blessed than I deserve and thank my Heavenly Father for my blessings every day.  Where much is given, much is required.  So I'm gonna get back to all that stuff that's required of me and you can enjoy the lack of "informative content" on this lame website. :-)

люблю, обнимаю и скучаю,

-DJ (Старейшина Ваня)