[The Final] SCS Wednesday Wire
January 18, 2023
REMINDER TO ATTEND NEXT WEDNESDAY
— Wednesday, January 25, 5 p.m., Rangos Ballroom, Cohen University Center
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Lecture featuring Marjora Carter
Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award-winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation of numerous economic development, technology inclusion and green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training and placement systems. Ms. Carter is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture: "Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one” — which is also the subtitle of her 2022 book, “Reclaiming Your Community.” Register for the lecture.
Check out all programs and events included in the weeks ahead as part of the CMU Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion’s MLK Community Celebration.
KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR INBOX
— We recently polled the SCS community seeking opinions and preferences for internal communications. One common response suggests that people are flooded with email and that we can consolidate the emails hitting our inboxes. We will take a first step to address this issue by retiring the Wednesday Wire and launching a Monday morning aggregated e-newsletter – called Open Source – where you’ll find an SCS news recap along with the upcoming week’s announcements and events. Watch for Open Source to reach your mailbox starting Monday, January 23. Submit information to Open Source: scs-comms@andrew.cmu.
SCS NEWS
— For seven weeks last fall, 15 students from the arts and sciences gathered in the basement of Hunt Library constructing robotic looms they used to weave fabrics of their own design during Recrafting Soft Technologies, a new minicourse offered through the School of Computer Science and the CMU's Integrative Design, Arts and Technology (IDeATe) initiative.
— Only a fraction of all the languages spoken around the world benefit from modern language technologies like voice-to-text transcription, automatic captioning, instantaneous translation and voice recognition. But researchers in the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) including Ph.D. student Xinjian Li and faculty members Shinji Watanabe, Florian Metze, David Mortensen and Alan Black want to expand the number of languages with automatic speech recognition tools available to them from around 200 to potentially 2,000.
CONGRATULATIONS . . .
. . . to Language Technologies Institute (LTI) Professor Alex Waibel who will receive the 2023 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award for his groundbreaking contributions to spoken language translation and supporting technologies.
I bid farewell to Wednesday Wire – which started as SCS TODAY nearly three years ago when the pandemic was first upon us – and welcome Open Source for regular and ongoing SCS internal communications.
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2022 Wednesday Wire Archives
2021 Wednesday Wire Archives