Clifford Weinstein

Clifford J. Weinstein leads the Information Systems Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and is responsible for initiating and managing research programs in speech technology, machine translation, and information assurance. He received S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT. He has made technical contributions and carried out leadership roles in research programs in speech recognition, speech coding, machine translation, speech enhancement, packet speech communications, information system assurance and survivability, integrated voice/data communication networks, digital signal processing, and radar signal processing. In 1993, Dr. Weinstein was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. From 1991–93, he was chairman of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Speech Processing. In 1976–78, he was chairman of that Society's Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing. In 1993, Dr. Weinstein was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE for technical leadership in speech recognition, packet speech, and integrated voice/data networks. From 1986–1998, Dr. Weinstein was U.S. technical specialist on the NATO RSG10 (now IST-01) Speech Research Group, in which capacity he authored a comprehensive NATO report and journal article on opportunities for applications of advanced speech technology in military systems. From 1989–1994, he was chairman of the coordinating committee for the DARPA Spoken Language Systems Program, which was the major U.S. research program in speech recognition and understanding, and which involved coordinated efforts of a number of leading U.S. research groups. From 1999–2003, he served on the DARPA Information Sciences and Technology (ISAT) Panel, a group which provides DARPA with continuing assessments of the state of advanced information science and technology, and its relationship to DoD issues.