Carnegie Mellon University, Professor, Artificial intelligence, Allen Newell, Natural language processing, Language Technologies Institute

Jaime Carbonell Pioneered Use of Computers for Translation

On Feb 29, 2020
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RT @SCSatCMU: We're sad to announce that Jaime Carbonell of @CarnegieMellon, a pioneer in AI, machine learning and language technologies, has died following an extended illness. The "godfather of language technologies," he led @LTIatCMU from its inception. https://t.co/XuOhSIWDCG https://t.co/xJCUmMggCK
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Jaime Carbonell foresaw a world where people could freely communicate with each other, no matter what language they spoke. He knew that making this dream a reality would require automation, so he spent his career building machines that could understand human language.

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On Feb 29, 2020
@stanfordnlp shared
RT @SCSatCMU: We're sad to announce that Jaime Carbonell of @CarnegieMellon, a pioneer in AI, machine learning and language technologies, has died following an extended illness. The "godfather of language technologies," he led @LTIatCMU from its inception. https://t.co/XuOhSIWDCG https://t.co/xJCUmMggCK
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Jaime Carbonell Pioneered Use of Computers for Translation

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