Benjamin Slade
Associate Professor
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Slade is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and computational semanticist with 14 years of academic experience specializing in South Asian and Caribbean language varieties as well as early Indo-European (especially Sanskrit/Vedic and Old English). He combines formal tools—lambda calculus and predicate logic—with philological methods to model meaning and language change, and implements those ideas in Lisp-family languages (Scheme, Racket, Common Lisp, Elisp). Based in Salt Lake City, he splits his time between university teaching and open-source software work under the moniker "(Deeply (Nested (Representations)))", producing Lisp-based tools that reflect his nested-representation approach to meaning. His background in cognitive science and philology enables a rare blend of formal semantic theory, historical linguistics, and practical system-building.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignLinguistics, Linguistics at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong
Hindi, English, Nepali, Sinhala, Sanskrit, English
Github Skills (200)
epub10
ebook-reader10
ubuntu-touch10
syncthing10
torrent10
browser10
pdf-viewer10
mupdf10
mode-line10
elisp10
kotlin-android10
mvvm10
package-manager10
text-editing10
zeplin10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
emacsmirror/equake
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:238 commits in 3 years 7 months
emacsomancer/vpnd
May 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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