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Dr. Carbonell is the Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematics from MIT in 1975, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Yale University in 1976 and 1978. He was the executive editor of Machine Learning [1988-1991], and serves on several editorial boards, including that of Artificial Intelligence. He has also served as chair of SIGART [1983-1985], the special interest group on AI of the ACM, and was president of C-STAR-II, the international organization for speech-to-speech translation [1993-1995]. Dr. Carbonell's previous business venture Carnegie Group, Inc., a successful public software-consulting corporation, traded on the NASDAQ until its acquisition by Logica PLC in 1997. He serves on the advisory board of e-lingo.com, Powerloom, Vivisimo, and most recently Wisdom Technologies. As a board member of Carnegie Speech, he will bring invaluable experience in the area of commercializing technology from the university to the business marketplace. Furthermore, he will help attract the right technical staff throughout Carnegie Speech's products development cycle. | 