Computational linguistics is an increasingly important skill area as companies such as IBM, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Lionbridge, Microsoft, Oracle and many others seek employees who can develop products that employ machine algorithms to interface with human language. Crucially, computational linguistics is at the nexus of computer science, information science and linguistics: the skills and expertise most sought by companies that hire people with training in computational linguistics or natural language processing is generally not attainable within a purely computer/information science or purely linguistics program.<br>This program provides students who wish to work in the areas of machine translation, machine learning, speech-to-text software, natural language processing, natural language generation, and artificial intelligence with an understanding of human language structure and the skills of linguistic analysis as well as the computational tools to develop software applications to parse and generate human language.