Martin Kay passes away

We are sad to write that Martin Kay passed away on August 7, 2021, after a long illness.  As Chris Potts wrote in his email to the department, “Martin achieved numerous deep scientific results that have impacted many areas of linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing.”  We -- and the field -- will greatly miss him.   You can get a sense of Martin -- and his work -- from the speech he gave  on receiving the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.