Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Linguistics, and Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a 2002 MacArthur Fellow. His research and teaching focus on natural language processing and its applications to the cognitive and social sciences, including the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing". He also works on other areas of linguistics; his book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" was a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award.
