Dear Students, Parents, and Teachers,

Less than one year ago we began planning the first North American
Computational Linguistics Olympiad.  Imagine how pleased we were on
March 29 to find that 195 students had come to participate.
Participants came from 13 states and the District of Columbia. They
participated in either one of the three main sites (Pittsburgh,
Boston, and Ithaca) or remotely.

Many people made this successful event possible.  First we would like
to thank the teachers and parents who encouraged their students and
children to participate.  We would also like to thank many college
students, graduate students, and professors from all over the world,
especially our colleagues from the Moscow Linguistics Olympiad and the
International Linguistics Olympiad whose experience we relied on to
help us through our first event.  We are also gratefully indebted to
Linguist List for hosting this web site.  Finally, we thank our
sponsors, Google, the North American chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, and most of all, the National Science
Foundation, without whom NAMCLO would not have taken place.

The results of NAMCLO are posted on the web site: www.namclo.org

Congratulations to all winners and to everyone who participated. We
are sure that everyone learned useful new things and had fun.

Sincerely,

--
Lori Levin, General co-Chair, Carnegie-Mellon University
Tom Payne, General co-Chair, University of Oregon
Dragomir Radev, Program Chair, University of Michigan