Biographical sketches of authors
Keith Emnett
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: emnett@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Emnett received his M.S. degree from MIT, where he was a research assistant in the Speech Interface Group at the Media Laboratory. There he developed personalized news systems and interfaces to mobile communication devices. He also worked on interfaces for the “Mutually Immersive Robotic Telepresence” project at Compaq Western Research Laboratory. Earlier he received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University, where his Honor's thesis was the “Audio Compass,” after which he designed hardware digital signal processing systems at Texas Instruments. He is currently employed at a small Silicon Valley startup company.
Chris Schmandt
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: geek@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Schmandt received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT, where he has been building speech systems since 1979. He is the director of the Speech Interface Group at the Media Laboratory, a position he has held since the creation of the laboratory. Before that he worked on speech applications research at the Architecture Machine Group, including the “Put That There” and “Phone Slave” projects, as well as projects in digital video typography and gestural input for stereoscopic video displays. His current research focuses on speech interfaces for highly mobile computers.
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