Tamás Biró Human being (born: 1975) E-mail: birot @ birot.hu. Academia.edu page and LinkedIn page. For further contact info, please contact me in an e-mail.
	Current affiliation: Senior research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. See my personal page. Recent affiliations: Temporary lecturer at the Linguistics Department of Yale University (personal page). Earlier: Institute of Phonetic Sciences, within ACLC, at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.
	Highlights: 2013-14: An exceptional year spent at Yale University. 2013: Article published in JoLLI on Robust Interpretive Parsing 2012-2013: Rothschild Foundation grant 2009-2012: NWO Veni grant 2012: Changing Minds (volume edited with István Czachesz) Since 2010: OTKit: Tools for Optimality Theory (software package) 2006: Finding the Right Words (phd dissertation)

Link to course descriptions.

What do I work on?

• Optimality Theory for non-linguists: written around 2003, strictly for non-linguists.
• Various descriptions of my Veni-project: written around 2009, for non-specialists.
• List of publications, as well as references to them, beside some pieces of software.
• Conference presentations, posters, etc.
• Workshops and conferences I organized or otherwise was involved in. Please let me highlight:
  • 2011: Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture (Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society)
  • 2009: Learning Meets Acquisition (DGfS Tagung)

Scholarly networks:

• Bidirectional Phonology and Phonetics, research group at ACLC, University of Amsterdam
• Unlearnable and Learnable Languages, research group at ACLC, University of Amsterdam
• Centre for Religion & Cognition
• A Nordic project on Ritual and the Emergence of Early Christian Religion: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis (REECR)
• Networks of the Dutch Republic

Miscellanies in my life, with links:

• I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 24, 1975.
• A note on my name, its pronouciation and orthography.
• I studied physics, theoretical linguistics and Hebrew studies at the Eötvös Loránd University
• Then, I was a a young research fellow at the department of Hebrew (Eötvös University, Budapest), a.k.a. Center for Jewish Studies, a.k.a. Institute for Ethnic and National Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Subsequently, I was employed by the Typological Database System Project (TDS) of the University of Amsterdam.
• Later, I became a temporary lecturer (universitair docent 2) at the University of Groningen.
• My page on the LOT website.
• For a detailed CV, click here.

Further stuff:

• OTKit version 1.0 published on 22/01/2010.
• AVT/Anéla Dissertatieprijs 2007 (best dissertation in linguistics in the Netherlands). Report of the jury (in Dutch only).
• Workshop on Computational Phonology, September 26, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
• December 8, 2006: Workshop on Computing and Phonology
• ESSLLI 2005 Student Session, Edinburgh.
• The Archive for Religion & Cognition and The Centre for Religion & Cognition.
• Pictures about my Phd defense.
• A program checking whether your sudoku only has one solution.

Even though my full name is Tamás Sándor Bíró and I also studied in the Berzsenyi Daniel High School, I am not identical with a known physicist with the same name.

And here is my page in Hungarian.