Prof. Sadaoki Furui to give talks in South America
Prof. Sadaoki Furui (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology) is scheduled to give several talks in South America in November 2012. He will visit Ecuador and give a plenary talk "Automatic Speech Recognition: Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs" at Andescon, in Cuenca (see link below) in Nov. 7. There will be also talks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Nov. 9 (same as in Cuenca), and in São Paulo, Brazil in Nov. 12 ("Data-Intensive ASR Based on Machine Learning). More information can be found from Andescon (http://andescon2012.org/index.php/congreso2012/andesconcuenca/schedConf…), and from the Argentina (jacoby@itba.edu.ar) and São Paulo (https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/CH09398) SPS chapters.