(Photo by Jack's wife Janet, who snapped it as Mr. Gore
raced down the parade route shaking lots of hands, including Jack's.
We were lucky that the picture came out at all, let alone in focus and
with large enough portions of both faces to be recognizable. At the
time, Janet thought she'd only taken a picture of Al Gore's belly.
But the picture itself is evidence of its authenticity -- any fake picture
would look much better!)
Project: Helping kids learn to read, by getting computers to listen to them read aloud.
Robotics Institute
Language Technologies Institute
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Project LISTEN offers exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary research in speech technologies, cognitive and motivational psychology, human-computer interaction, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, graphic design, and of course reading.
Ph.D. in Computer Science (1981) and NSF Graduate Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Mostow's research interests in artificial intelligence have included speech, machine learning, and design. After research and faculty positions at Stanford, Information Sciences Institute, and Rutgers, he joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1992 to launch Project LISTEN, which is getting computers to listen to children read aloud, and help them.
Dr. Mostow was Program Co-chair of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI98), and has served as an editor of Machine Learning Journal and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
[CALICO99] Mostow, J. and Aist, G. Giving Help and Praise in a
Reading Tutor with Imperfect Listening – Because Automated Speech Recognition
Means
Never Being Able to Say You’re Certain. CALICO Journal16:3,
407-424. Special issue (M. Holland, Ed.), Tutors that Listen:
Speech recognition for Language Learning, 1999.
[USPTO 99] Mostow, J. and Aist, G. Reading and Pronunciation Tutor.
United States Patent No. 5,920,838. Filed June 2, 1997; issued July
6, 1999. US
Patent and Trademark
Office.
[AAAI97] J. Mostow and G. Aist. The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor that Listens. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97). American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Providence, RI, July, 1997, pp. 355-361. Click here for presentation slides.
[AAAI 94] J. Mostow, S. Roth, A. G. Hauptmann, and M. Kane. A Prototype
Reading Coach that Listens. Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, Seattle, WA, August 1994, pp. 785-792. Recipient of the
AAAI-94 Outstanding Paper Award. Download
Postscript file.
Email (preferred means of contact): mostow@cs.cmu.edu
Phone: (412) 268-1330
FAX: 268-6436
Secretary: Marie Elm, 268-3838, NSH 4207
Access to all the books in the Library of Congress is of little use if you cannot read. [F. Cairncross, The Death of Distance, p. 253.]
After all my time here, I've yet to see any problem, however complicated,
which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.
[spoken by Arne Viken, character in Call Me Joe, by Poul Anderson,
1957.]