From
Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech
Communication
Event to honor Kenneth
N. Stevens and survey progress in the field
For Immediate Release
MONDAY, 11 May 2004
Contact: William Smith, Assistant Director for Finance
and Sponsor Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
 CAMBRIDGE, MA.: The Research Laboratory of Electronics
(RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) is pleased to announce that it will co-sponsor, "From
Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech
Communication," a conference that will be held
on the MIT campus June 11-13, 2004.
The objective of the conference is to provide a single
venue in which a broad spectrum of scientists and engineers
can gather to review significant research progress
in speech communication scientific and engineering
research from the past fifty years, assess the current
state of the art, and promote cross-fertilization among
the sub-disciplines in this very wide-ranging field
to benefit future work. The scientific program will
include invited oral sessions and contributed poster
sessions.
The event coincides with the fiftieth anniversary
of Professor
Kenneth N. Steven's presence on the MIT
faculty and in RLE. Professor Stevens has made pioneering
contributions to the theory, mathematical methods and
analysis of acoustics in speech production, leading
to the contemporary foundations of speech science.
His theoretical work on acoustic properties of speech
sounds that comprise the linguistic elements of language
form the major principles of speech science. His theoretical
work on acoustic invariance has defined unifying principles
that have integrated major portions of acoustic phonetics,
phonology, speech science and linguistics. Professor
Stevens has mentored generations of researchers in
speech communication.
Co-sponsors of the conference include RLE, the Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),
the Harvard-MIT Division
of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and the Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). In addition many individuals
have generously provided support.
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