Keynote Speakers

interACT aims at sharing it’s scientific know-how between the partners. Therefore a distinguished lecture series is organized in order to make the competence available to a broader audience. Since the official founding of interACT in 2004 about 25 lectures were given, among them Tom Mitchell, CMU (@ KIT in 2005: Machine Learning and Brain Imaging).

In 2014:
  • Prof. Stefan Riezler, Heidelberg University riezler-vortrag.jpg
    @ KIT, February 11, 2014, Title: Theoretical and Practical Grounding in Empirical Computational Linguistics
    Abstract and Bio
    KIT, Bldg. 50.20, Room 148, 5.30-6.30pm 

In 2013:
  • Dr. Alex Fraser, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    @ KIT, July 10, 2013, Bldg. 50.20, Room 148, 5.30-6.30pm
    Title: Improving Translation to Morpholgically Rich Languages
In 2012 the following lectures were hold:
  •  Dr. Randy Bryant, Dean of the School of Computer Science at CMU
    @ KIT, October 24, 2012itle: Data-Intensive Scalable Computing
    Abstract and bio
    KIT, Faculty for Computer Science, Bldg. 50.34, room -101, 5.30-7.00pm
  • Dr. Manuela Veloso, Robotics Institute CMU
    @ KIT, June 26, 2012
    Title: Symbiotic Autonomy for Effective Service Robots
    Abstract and bio
    KIT, Faculty for Computer Science, Bldg. 50.34, room -102, 5.30-7.00pm
  • Dr. Chi Mai Luong, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology
    @ KIT, June 13, 2012
    Title: Development of Vietnamese-English Speech-to-Speech Translation, Towards National ICT Program
    2011-2015
  • Dr. Jaime Carbonell, Dept Head LTI, CMU
    @ KIT, June 12, 2012
    Title: Proactive Machine Learning and its Application
    Abstract and bio
    KIT, Faculty for Computer Science, Bldg. 50.34, room -102, 5.30-7.00pm

       

 

In 2011 the following lectures were hold:
  • Dr. Justus Roux, University of Stellenbosch, South Afrika
    @ KIT, November 10, 2011
    Title: Speech Translationa and African Languages
  • Dr. Chiori Hori, National Institute of Information and Communications
    @ KIT, July 13 , 2011
    Title: The MASTAR project
In 2009 the following lectures were hold:
  • Dr. David Israel, Artifical Intelligence Center SRI
    @ KIT, June 25, 2009
    Title: Integrated Learning in the Wild: Some Lessosn from the CALO Project
    Abstract and Bio
  • Prof. Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University
    @ KIT, January 13, 2009
    Title: A Wireless Tested Based On Signal Propagation Emulation and its Application to Wireless
In 2008 the following lectures were hold:
  • Dr. Stefan Vogel, Carnegie Mellon University
    @ HKUST, September 18, 2008
    Title: Statistical Machine Translation at CMU

 

 

 

In 2007 the following lectures were hold:
  • Prof. Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    @ UKA, July 7, 2007
    Title: What You and How You Say It: Acoustic and Linguistic Features in Lecture Speech Summarization
  • Prof. Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    @ UKA, July 5, 2007
    Title: Does Statistical Machine Translation need Syntax or Semantics
  • Prof. D. Wagner, KIT
    @ CMU, June 13, 2007
    Title: Theoretical Informatics
  • Prof. Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University
    @ CMU, June 13, 2007
    Title: Making Synthetic Speech Output as Natural, Flexible, and Efficient as Human Speech

Prof. Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington did a research stay at interACT Karlsruhe from August 2005 until June 2006.

 

In 2006 the following lectures were hold:
  • Prof. James Kuffner, Carnegie Mellon University 
    @ KIT, 2006

In 2005 the following lectures were hold:
  • Prof. Lori Lamel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 
    @ UKA, December 9, 2005
    Title: Natural Language Processing at LIMSI

 

 

 

  • Prof. Christof Weinhardt, UKA
    @ CMU, September 30, 2005
    Title: Process Engineering
  • Prof. Satoshi Nakamura, ATR        
    @ UKA, July 20, 2005
    Title: Speech-to-Speech-Translation

 

 

  • Prof. Aytul Ercil, Sabanci University in Istanbul
    @ KIT, July 7, 2005
    Title: Sabanici University and the SPICE Project
  • Prof. Tom Mitchel Carnegie Mellon University        
    @ KIT, June 24, 2005Title: Lecture on Machine Learning and Brain Imaging
  • Prof. Katsu Ikeuchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    @ KIT, June 7, 2005
    Title: Making Humaoid Robots Dance By Using the Programming-by-Demonstration Paradigm
  • Prof. Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University
    @ KIT, June 6, 2005
    Title: Building Synthetic Voices in Languages You Don´t Know
  • Dr. Joachim Neumann, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    @ UKA, January 28, 2005
    Title: Hearing Aid Fitting
  • Dr. Gerasimos Potamianos, Forschungszentrum Yorktown Heights
    @ UKA, January 27, 2005
    Title: Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

 

 

interACT will also start it’s interACT-Alumni Success Stories, where former interACT students talk about their professional career. Detailed Information will follow soon...