Welcome

I live on a 40-acre farm just outside the city of Eagle, Idaho USA. My family has been farming and ranching in this area since the 1880s, when my great-great-grandfather G.W. Fry first settled here to grow corn and alfalfa and raise sheep.

I earn my living as a linguist and freelance translator (Japanese into English). I teach courses in Linguistics at Boise State University, where I am a member of the BSU Linguistics Lab.

I earned a BA in Linguistics and Computer Science from UCLA, followed by a Ph.D. in Linguistics, with a minor in Computer Science, from Stanford University in 2002. Before moving to Idaho I worked as a computational linguist in the San Francisco Bay Area (at SRI and elsewhere) and taught courses in language technology (text and speech processing) at San Jose State University.