Indication: Professor ThaÏs Cristófaro Silva – Faculty of Letters at UFMG
Period: October 4th to 12th
William S-Y. Wang began his educational training in China, and in 1955 received a BA from Columbia College and a doctorate in 1960 from the University of Michigan. After conducting research projects at the IBM Research Center (Yorktown Heights) and the Electronics Research Laboratory at MIT, William Wang taught at the University of Michigan and Ohio State University before being appointed Professor of Linguistics at the University of California in Berkeley in 1966. In Berkeley he founded the Phonology Laboratory (1967) and launched the Journal of Chinese Linguistics (1973). After retiring from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996, William Wang joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004. He was elected Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. He has taught regular courses in America, Asia and Europe in addition to teaching courses at various summer schools and complexity workshops held at the Santa Fe Institute.