As the last speakers of a language die off, the valuable information contained within a language also disappears.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

The purpose of language is to communicate information.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Mr. KEITH DEVLIN (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford): Hello, Scott.

NPR: The Math Behind Pellicano's Code

He's executive director for the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford.

NPR: The Math Behind Pellicano's Code

Grady figured he would have a decent business if he could unify these services with some clever use of XML, the Internet software language that standardizes the exchange of information among different computer systems.

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