"Thanks Mike! What a blast from the past! That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim"
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- How did you hear about Codetown?
- From my buddy Mike!
- What are your main interests in software development?
- Semantic Web, NLP, text mining, OSS, Groovy
- Do you have a website?
- http://www.ifcx.org/
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- At 1:26pm on September 9, 2025,
Michael Levin said…
Happy birthday!
- At 10:58pm on October 2, 2011,
- 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
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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