Yesterday afternoon I had set off on Route 460 in rural Virginia, going from here to there, as one does, when I pulled off the road into this little oasis of an Exxon gas station. It was another hot, humid day in the South, and there weren’t many people about, except for this one car on the far side …

Just a brief note.

I’ve been quiet lately because I’m neck-deep in a rather interesting research problem: speech-to-text translation for low-resource languages.

I’m up at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Here’s a summary of what we are researching, from …

I was honored to participate in the Parade of Ships 2015, the kickoff event for Fleet Week.

Fleet Week is an annual event by the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the city of New York for community outreach and as a way to celebrate the sea services.

But let me first give …