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Central Michigan has hired Matt Drinkall, the offensive line coach at Army, to be its next head football coach. Related Articles College Sports | Unbeaten MSU climbs seven spots in women’s AP Top 25; UM up three slots College Sports | Michigan ranked for first time in three years, MSU makes first appearance of season in top 25 College Sports | Michigan gets Alabama in ReliaQuest Bowl on Dec. 31 College Sports | AP Top 25: Oregon, Georgia, Notre Dame, Texas top poll going into playoff; Tide ranked ahead of SMU College Sports | Gayle scores late to give Michigan 85-83 win over Iowa for Wolverines’ 7th straight victory Drinkall has been on staff at Army for six seasons, in a variety of roles. Before that, he was head coach at Kansas Wesleyan, of the NAIA level, for five seasons. Drinkall, 42, succeeds Jim McElwain, who recently retired after 40 years of coaching, including the last six at Central Michigan. The new coach was on campus Monday, and he will be introduced during a campus press conference Tuesday. Contract terms weren’t immediately available Monday. McElwain made more than $1 million a year. “Matt has been successful everywhere he’s been,” Central Michigan athletic director Amy Folan said in a statement Monday. “He is very innovative, he’s been a student of the game, and has a passion for college football. He’s coming from an institution in Army West Point that puts a premium on leadership. He has had success as a head coach and has a reputation as a player’s coach. With Matt’s background and abilities, he is the perfect fit to lead us into the next chapter of Central Michigan football.” This season, Drinkall helped oversee an Army offense that averaged 314.4 rushing yards, which ranked first in the nation, and scored 32.92 points a game. His offensive line is a finalist for the Joe Moore Award. Army (11-1), which checked in 22nd in the final College Football Playoff rankings, will play Navy on Dec. 14, and then plays Marshall in the Independence Bowl on Dec. 28. Drinkall has been Army’s offensive-line coach the past two seasons, and was co-offensive coordinator in 2023. He was tight-ends coach from 2020-22, and was a quality control coach in 2019, his first year on Jeff Monken’s staff. “My wife Kim and I are deeply humbled and honored to join the Central Michigan University family,” Drinkall said in a statement. “We are so excited to get back to our Midwest roots and to be a part of this passionate community. We cannot wait to build meaningful relationships and help contribute to the success of this storied program. We are also honored to follow in the footsteps of the McElwains, who have meant so much to college football. Fire Up Chips!” Central Michigan has had three losing seasons in a row, and was 4-8 this past season, as the NCAA was investigating the university’s role in then-Michigan staffer Connor Stalions allegedly being on the Chippewas sideline, in sunglasses, a goatee and maroon-and-gold clothing, for the season opener at Michigan State in 2023. McElwain and several assistants were interviewed by the NCAA, and CMU has said it is cooperating with the NCAA’s investigation. The Chippewas made two bowl games under McElwain, beating Washington State, 24-21, in the 2021 Sun Bowl. McElwain, 62, is staying at CMU, as an adviser to Folan in the athletic department. Before arriving at Army, Drinkall was head coach at Kansas Wesleyan, leading the program to a 42-17 record over his five seasons, while also serving as the offensive coordinator. The team, under his power-spread, no-huddle offense, made the national semifinals in 2018. Drinkall was an assistant at NAIA school St. Ambrose, in Iowa, from 2008-13. Before that, he was an assistant Western Illinois; Drinkall got his start in coaching in high school in Iowa. Drinkall is a native of Bettendorf, Iowa, and he played football and ran track in high school. “Matt Drinkall brings an impressive track record of leadership, innovation, and success to Central Michigan University,” Central Michigan president Neil MacKinnon said in a statement. “His commitment to excellence both on and off the field aligns with our values and our vision for the future of CMU football. “We are excited to welcome Matt and his family to Mount Pleasant, and we look forward to seeing how his passion and experience will inspire our student-athletes and energize the CMU Chippewa community.” Drinkall takes over a program had a light haul on National Signing Day last week, inking just nine recruits amid the uncertainty of the head-coaching position. Central Michigan also is losing several players to the transfer portal, include two of its quarterbacks, Bert Emanuel Jr. and Joe Labas. Emanuel had five touchdowns (three rushing, two passing) in 2024, while Labas threw for seven touchdowns and seven interceptions in his first season at CMU after transferring from Iowa. Offensive lineman Jemeil Jackson also entered the transfer portal Monday, the first day the portal opened.Syracuse, Albany each hoping to get right at expense of the other
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Wade Taylor IV helps No. 13 Texas A&M rout Abilene ChristianQatar-Nato relationship robust across multiple fields: officialBy Ifham Nizam Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT-MOBITEL), as the National Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Solutions Provider has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to fostering cultural preservation, environmental sustainability, and community empowerment through its initiatives. In this interview, SLT Chief Executive Officer Janaka Abeysinghe sheds light on the visionary strategies behind the company’s impactful projects, such as the annual calendar program. These calendars not only highlight the nation’s rich cultural and natural heritage but also actively contribute to community upliftment and environmental conservation. Q: How does SLT-MOBITEL’s annual calendar initiative promote Sri Lanka’s heritage and culture? A: As the National ICT Solutions Provider, SLT-MOBITEL recognizes the responsibility to create meaningful initiatives that benefit society and the environment. The annual calendar serves as a distinctive platform to showcase Sri Lanka’s rich natural and cultural heritage through carefully curated themes. The initiative was inspired by the country’s abundant environmental, cultural, and artistic treasures, as well as the desire to establish a unique corporate identity by celebrating the county’s national heritage. Q: How does Sri Lanka Telecom ensure authentic representation of cultural elements in the annual calendar while maintaining contemporary relevance? A: Cultural heritage is a source of national pride, valued and celebrated even in today’s modern context. Globally, we have seen that these efforts are highly appreciated. Locally, they serve as a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving and celebrating our cultural identity. SLT-MOBITEL ensures authenticity in the calendar through thorough research, collaboration with subject-matter experts, and customer feedback, guided by the theme ‘Preserving Heritage for Tomorrow.’ This approach has been extremely successful for our calendars. Q: How does SLT-MOBITEL annually select specific calendar themes related to heritage, culture, and nature? What is the process or collaboration involved? Themes are decided internally by the Marketing group based on the prevailing environmental, social, and economic climate. Over the past 19 years, after finalizing a theme, SLT-MOBITEL collaborates with resource persons who are experts in the chosen field and artists capable of executing the creative vision. The process also includes academic consultation to ensure the calendars are visually appealing and educationally accurate. Q: How do these calendar initiatives support local communities and preserve cultural heritage? 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In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages differently — with some assuming they convey a threat. If humanity ended up in such a situation today, our best bet may be to turn to research uncovering how artificial intelligence (AI) develops languages. But what exactly defines a language? Most of us use at least one to communicate with people around us, but how did it come about? Linguists have been pondering this very question for decades , yet there is no easy way to find out how language evolved . Language is ephemeral, it leaves no examinable trace in the fossil records. Unlike bones, we can't dig up ancient languages to study how they developed over time. While we may be unable to study the true evolution of human language, perhaps a simulation could provide some insights. That's where AI comes in — a fascinating field of research called emergent communication , which I have spent the last three years studying. To simulate how language may evolve, we give agents (AIs) simple tasks that require communication, like a game where one robot must guide another to a specific location on a grid without showing it a map. We provide (almost) no restrictions on what they can say or how — we simply give them the task and let them solve it however they want. Because solving these tasks requires the agents to communicate with each other, we can study how their communication evolves over time to get an idea of how language might evolve. Related: Father-daughter team decodes 'alien signal' from Mars that stumped the world for a year Similar experiments have been done with humans . Imagine you, an English speaker, are paired with a non-English speaker. Your task is to instruct your partner to pick up a green cube from an assortment of objects on a table. You might try to gesture a cube shape with your hands and point at grass outside the window to indicate the color green. Over time you'd develop a sort of proto-language together. Maybe you'd create specific gestures or symbols for "cube" and "green". Through repeated interactions, these improvised signals would become more refined and consistent, forming a basic communication system. This works similarly for AI. Through trial and error, they learn to communicate about objects they see, and their conversation partners learn to understand them. But how do we know what they're talking about? If they only develop this language with their artificial conversation partner and not with us, how do we know what each word means? After all, a specific word could mean "green", "cube", or worse — both. This challenge of interpretation is a key part of my research. Cracking the code The task of understanding AI language may seem almost impossible at first. If I tried speaking Polish (my mother tongue) to a collaborator who only speaks English, we couldn't understand each other or even know where each word begins and ends. The challenge with AI languages is even greater, as they might organise information in ways completely foreign to human linguistic patterns. Fortunately, linguists have developed sophisticated tools using information theory to interpret unknown languages. Just as archaeologists piece together ancient languages from fragments, we use patterns in AI conversations to understand their linguistic structure. Sometimes we find surprising similarities to human languages, and other times we discover entirely novel ways of communication . These tools help us peek into the "black box" of AI communication, revealing how artificial agents develop their own unique ways of sharing information. My recent work focuses on using what the agents see and say to interpret their language. Imagine having a transcript of a conversation in a language unknown to you, along with what each speaker was looking at. We can match patterns in the transcript to objects in the participant's field of vision, building statistical connections between words and objects. For example, perhaps the phrase "yayo" coincides with a bird flying past — we could guess that "yayo" is the speaker's word for "bird". Through careful analysis of these patterns, we can begin to decode the meaning behind the communication. In the latest paper by me and my colleagues, to appear in the conference proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), we show that such methods can be used to reverse-engineer at least parts of the AIs' language and syntax, giving us insights into how they might structure communication. Aliens and autonomous systems How does this connect to aliens ? The methods we're developing for understanding AI languages could help us decipher any future alien communications. If we are able to obtain some written alien text together with some context (such as visual information relating to the text), we could apply the same statistical tools to analyze them. The approaches we're developing today could be useful tools in the future study of alien languages, known as xenolinguistics. But we don't need to find extraterrestrials to benefit from this research. There are numerous applications , from improving language models like ChatGPT or Claude to improving communication between autonomous vehicles or drones . By decoding emergent languages, we can make future technology easier to understand. Whether it's knowing how self-driving cars coordinate their movements or how AI systems make decisions, we're not just creating intelligent systems — we're learning to understand them. This edited article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article .
