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SCS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
4:00 PM - Wean Hall 7500
3:30 PM Distinguished Donuts - Outside the Hall

Victor Zue
Co-Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Advanced Multimodal iInterfaces:
Lessons Learned from Project Oxygen

Oxygen is a five year project being conducted at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) with the goal of bringing about revolutionary changes in the ways computers and humans interact through a vision of pervasive, human centered computing. An important aspect of Oxygen is the development of advanced, perceptual interfaces focusing on natural means of human interactions using sound, sight, and gesture that are part of the human communication repertoire. Above all, these interfaces must exploit the audio-visual symbiosis that exists in human communication, and integrate them for effective human-machine communication.

In this talk, I will describe some of our research on enabling natural conversation, identifying people by their voices and faces, and understanding sketching and gestures. I will illustrate how the integration of these technologies can lead to advanced capabilities for multi-modal interfaces.

Speaker Bio:

Victor Zue is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Co-Director of the Institute's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also the first holder of the Delta Electronics Chair endowed for senior researchers. Victor's main research interest is in the development of spoken language interfaces to make human/computer interactions easier and more natural, and he has taught many courses and lectured extensively on this subject. Prior to 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group, which has pioneered the development of many systems that enable a user to interact with computers using multiple spoken languages (English, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish). Their work has been covered by many publications internationally including Business Week, Discover, Time, and The Economist.

Outside of MIT, Victor has consulted for many multinational corporations, and he has served on many planning, advisory, and review committees for the US Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academies of Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. In 1994, he was elected Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. From 1996-1998, he chaired the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, helping the DoD formulate new directions for information technology research. In 1999, he received the DARPA Sustained Excellence Award. In 2002, he received the Speech Technology Magazine's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

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