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"Thanks Mike!  What a blast from the past!  That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim"
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"Happy birthday!"
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From my buddy Mike!
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Semantic Web, NLP, text mining, OSS, Groovy
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At 1:26pm on September 9, 2025, Michael Levin said…

Happy birthday!

At 10:58pm on October 2, 2011, Michael Levin said…
Great talking with you, my good friend! I'm excited to learn about computational linguistics.  Glad it's going well at Univ of Washington. My friend's name is Paul Benschoter, with the voice group at Wells Fargo, and based in Portland. TTYL, Mike
 
 
 

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