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What's the deal with SCO now?? Taking money from Microsoft possibly?? And a memo to prove it???
Just saw this on Groklaw. A leaked memo that probably shouldn't have been leaked, regarding Baystar's funding of SCO, and Microsoft's funding of Baystar. I wonder what the deal is here. These SCO people lose more and more credibility every day. I do hope MSFT isn't funding their legal escapades, cause I don't think anyone in their right minds would want to be associated with SCO these days (litigious bastards).
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Sphinx 3.4 coming out soon...
So I just attended a talk by Arthur Chan, formerly of SpeechWorks (now ScanSoft), who is now staff at Carnegie Mellon, and he's working on a new version of the Sphinx 3 recognizer (Sphinx 3.4). It's a very sophisticated approach using a tree-based lexicon (which improves speed, and marginally reduces accuracy of words that are slurred or cut off, since the language model cannot boost confidence scores with this approach), and a continuous HMM (Hidden Markov Model).
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Friend for hire...
So I have a really good friend here at CMU, great guy, and needs an internship this summer. Please ping me via this blog if you are hiring for the summer and could use a CMU student who:
- Has a 4.0 in our computer science dept. (Only like 4 students a year can pull that off here).
- Is teaching a class on C# right now.
- Helped write a C++.net book published by Deitel and Deitel last summer.
- Has a great personality, super creative, awesome guy, and super enthusiastic.
I'm not posting his resume so he doesn't get spammed, but ping me if you've got anything interesting :)
I'll try and help him through my own contacts at IBM and elsewhere, too.
Thanks!