NEW SPEECH RECOGNITION IN MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS BOOK
Our book chapter, “Mobile Speech Hardware: The Case for Custom Silicon” is out in the new book from Wiley, Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments, edited by our IBM colleagues Nitendra Rajput and Amit Anil Nanavati. It’s available from Amazon here
GROUP MEMBERS MOVE TO INTEL AND GOOGLE
Congratulations to former research group members Patrick Bourke and Zhong Xiu, who have new positions in exciting places. Patrick has joined the Exascale team at Intel in Portland. And Zhong has joined the search quality team at Google in Mountain View. We wish them well in their new roles.
Proposed CS+X Degree Featured in Daily Illini
NOVEMBER 14, 2012 Our new proposed degree program – we’re informally calling it “CS+X” – which is to be offered in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was reviewed in the campus paper today. This is an exciting new collaboration which will allow degrees in thing like Computational Anthropology and Computational Chemistry. Lots of the most …
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RR interviewed in Crain’s Chicago Business
OCTOBER 25 2012 Lots of buzz generated by our Chicago After Hours event held on campus this month. Here is an interview I did with Crain’s, talking about technology connections from UIUC to Chicago: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20121003/NEWS08/121009920/emanuel-pitches-u-of-i-tech-students-to-some-effect