Keynote Talk

"89:&#;<=$ Dr. Alexander Waibel is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He is the director of the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT). The Center works in a network with eight of the world’s top research institutions. Its mission is to develop advanced machine learning algorithms to improve human-human and human-machine communication technologies. Prof. Waibel and his team pioneered many statistical and neural learning algorithms that made such communication breakthroughs possible. Most notably, the “Time-Delay Neural Network” (1987) (now also known as “convolutional” neural network) is at the heart of many of today’s AI technologies. System breakthroughs that followed suit included early multimodal dialog interfaces, the first speech translation system in Europe&USA (1990/1991), the first simultaneous lecture interpretation system (2005), and Jibbigo, the first commercial speech translator on a phone (2009).