By JIRI NAVRATIL
With deep sadness, we regret to announce that our dear colleague and friend Dr. Ganesh N. Ramaswamy passed away on October 9th, 2008. Ganesh had significant professional and personal impact on his colleagues and friends, and he will be sorely missed.
SLTC Elects New Chair
and New Members
By
BRIAN MAK
The SLTC recently elected 22 new
committee members and a new committee Chair. These
new members, whose terms will begin in January 2009,
will increase the size of the committee to 45
members.
Zaenen,
Sorokin, Itakura and Weinstein Talk to Saras
Institute
By
SAMER AL MOUBAYED, JIN KYU PARK, OLGA PUSTOVALOVA, &
ANTONIO ROQUE
We
continue the series of excerpts of interviews from
the History of Speech and Language Technology
Project. In these segments, Annie Zaenen, Victor
Sorokin, Fumitada Itakura, and Clifford Weinstein
discuss how they became involved with the field of
speech and language technology.
