Joe Pater (PI) and Brendan O’Connor (Co-PI, Computer Science) have been awarded an NSF Conference Grant entitled “Perceptrons and Syntactic Structures at 60: Computational Modeling of Language”. The meeting will bring together leading researchers in cognitive science and artificial intelligence who specialize in the integration of linguistic theory with statistical approaches, especially neural networks. It will be held in conjunction with the first meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, at the LSA in Salt Lake City in January.