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For pioneering and outstanding contributions to speech science andconversational spoken口 language systems

Dr.Victor Zue
Pos:tions and Organizations:
Delta Electronics Cha廿he taught courses on spectrograrrl reading around the world,Professor,EECS

including in Japan.

Director of lnterrlational Relations,CSAIL

Massachusetts hstitute of Technology(MIT)Subsequently,he was among the firstto advocate that we canachieve natural interactions with computers only if we canDoctorate :Sc.D.(MIT,1976)

conllnunicate with thenl as conversational partners. Therefore,

Date of Birth:Febrllary 19,1946

natural language understanding/generation, andseveral human language technologles―

speech recogmuon/synlhesis,

discourse/dia10gue modeling,Inust be combined to build
conversational interfaces。 " Since the early nineties,theBrief Biography:
1968 B.S.,in Electrical Enginee五 ng,Univ.of Flo五 da

1969 M.S.E.,Univ.of Flo五 da

1976 Sce D.,MIT
2001…

Spoken Language Systems Group at MIT has pioneered such an
approach that led to significant government funding for thecommunity,and the realization of a variety of such systems that

Director,Laboratory for Colrlputer Science(LCS),201l MIT

can allow users to call on the phone,speak to a computerinteractively,and receive information about weather,flight

Co中 ]Director and the Director,Computer Science andarrival and departure tilnes,restaurants,driving directions,ctc.

Artificial lntelligence Laboratory(CSAIL),MIT

These are forerunners of some of the current coΠ

Present Delta Electronics Cha廿

Professor,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,MITHnercial

capabilities that exist today in systems such as the Apple Siri.

His effort have been wen… documented in journals andconference proceedings,and have also been extensively covered

Ma:n Awards and Honors:
1990 Fellow,Acoustical Society of AIne五 ca

by the national and international press,including Tilne,
BusinessWeck,the Econonust,and Discover.

1998 DARPA Sustained Excellence Award
2002 Speech Technology Magazinc lnaugural Lifetilne
Achievement Award
2004 Fellow,US National Acadelmy of Enginee五 ng

Colmputer Science(LCS),and the Co― Director and the Director

2007

1SCA Medal for Scientific Achievementof the Computer Science and Artificial lntelligence Laboratory

2008

Academlclan,Academla Slrlica,Talwan

2008

Fellow,
Intemational Speech Communication Association(CSAIL).CSAIL is MIT's largest interdepartmental laboratory,
and is recognized worldwide for its innovative research in all

Bctween 2001 and 2011,E)r.Zuc has held various positions ofstewardship at MIT― as the lDirector of the Laboratory for

aspects of computer science.

2013 1EEE:Jarrles L.Flanagan Speech and Audio
Processing Award

Dre Zuc accomplishments have been honored with IIlany awards.
Hc is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of Alnerica,a Fellow

Ma:n Achievements:E)r.Zue was bom on February 19,1946 in Sichuan,China. Hc
received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in ElectricalEngineering from the University of Florida in 1968 and 1969,

respectively,and his doctor of Science degrec(Sc.D.)in
Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts lnstitute ofTechnology(MIT)in 1976. Since then,he has been in various
research and teaching positions at MIT,where he is curentlyof the lnternational Speech lConllnunication Association. He
was inducted into the National Academy of Enginec五 ng in 2004''for advances in the understanding of acoustic phonetics andsystems for understanding spoken language.‖
In 2008,hebecame an Acadelrlician of Acadelrlia Sinica in Taiwan. In
2013,Dr.Zue was narrled the recipient of the IEEE Jalmes L.
Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
For pioneering

contributions to acoustic Phonetics and conversational
spoken… language systems。 "the lDelta Electronics Chair Professor of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science.

Hc is intemationally known for his acoustic‥ phonetic knowledge,

Throughout his professional life,E)r.Zuc has been conducting

and the formulation of the paradignl ofspectrogralrl reading"to fomalize this knowledge. He and his colleagues in the MIT

research that will ultilnately lead to the development ofcomputer systems with which ordinary people can communicate

Spoken Language Systems Group he founded also pioneered thedevelopment of spoken dialogue systems that enable users tousing human language。 lDuring the carlier part of his career,Dr.

converse with computers using human language。

Zue studied the encoding of phonetic and phonologicalinformation in human conlrrlunication. In 1978,heFor Pioneering and outstanding contributions to speech sciencedemonstrated for the first tirne that,amed with this knowledge,

and conversational spoken― language systems,Dre Victor Zue isphonetic infomation can be deciphered by visually exanlining

hereby awarded the Okawa P五 ze.

speech spectrograms,or voicep五 nts. 1)u五 ng the ensuing decade,