Speaking Out "Cloud": How Cloud Computing and Mashups are Fostering Multimodal Mobile Services   . . . Abstract . . . Biography Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, AT&T Labs - Research     11:00 AM (refreshments 10:45), 32-G882 (Stata Center - 8th Floor Reading Room) CSAIL Seminar -   Host: Jim Glass, MIT CSAIL -   Contact: Marcia Davidson, 617-253-3049, marcia@csail.mit.edu

Biography

Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio is a Lead Member of Research Staff in the IP & Voice Services Research Laboratory at AT&T Labs - Research in Florham Park, NJ. During his career, he has conducted research on multimodal and spoken dialog systems, conversational agents, natural language generation, multimodal and speech system architectures, platforms and services, publishing more than fifty conference and journal papers on these subjects. He was instrumental in the development and deployment of the AT&T VoiceTone(R) Dialog Automation product for the AT&T business enterprise customers and the recipient of the 2008 AT&T Science and Technology Medal Award for outstanding technical innovation and leadership in the advancement of spoken language technologies, architectures, and services. Di Fabbrizio is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an elected member (2009-2011) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's "Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee" (SLTC) in the area of dialog systems, serves as editor of the SLTC’s quarterly newsletter, and contributes as a program committee member and technical reviewer for numerous international conferences, journals, and workshops. Prior to joining AT&T, he worked as a Senior Researcher at Telecom Italia Lab (formerly CSELT, now mostly Loquendo).