CSLI Center for the Study of Language and Information -- Stanford University

The Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) is a Independent Research Center founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC (now just PARC).

CSLI is devoted to research in the emerging science of information, computing, and cognition. This new science had its origins in the late 1970s as computer scientists, linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers, seeking solutions to problems in their own disciplines, turned to one another for help.

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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy implements the new digital library concept of a "dynamic reference work"---it is a highly customized work-flow system by which the members of an entire discipline can collaboratively maintain a refereed reference work that not only introduces (for beginners) traditional philosophical topics but also tracks (for experts) the new ideas being published on those topics in both fixed and web-based media.

Featured Publication

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms by Donald E. Knuth

Donald E. Knuth has been making foundational contributions to the field of computer science for as long as computer science has been a field. His award-winning textbooks are often given credit for shaping the field, and his scientific papers are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide variety of topics. The present volume, the seventh in a series of his collected papers, is devoted to his work on the design of new algorithms. Nearly thirty of Knuth's classic papers are collected in this book and brought up to date with extensive revisions and notes on subsequent developments. The papers cover numerous discrete problems, such as assorting, searching, data compression, theorem proving, and cryptography, as well as methods for controlling errors in numerical computations.