Dept. of Defense puts trust in Hopkins
Since 9/11 and the onset of the war in Iraq, the changing face of terrorism around the world has highlighted the United States' need for efficient and advanced language translation. Decoding and intercepting exactly what the tens of thousands of suspicious Web sites online today are communicating, to both innocent civilians and malevolent fellow terrorists, is a new focus of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Thanks to a hard-won contract with the federal government, Hopkins is now doing its part to fight the war on terrorism with its new Human Language Technology Center, which opened in January.
After a highly competitive race, Hopkins beat out several other prestigious universities to receive a Department of Defense grant that established cutting-edge facility.
According to Gary Strong, executive director of the Center, the facility is equipped for "understanding and formulating solutions to the long-term problems in language understanding."
The Human Language Technology Center will fulfill an aspect of language translation that is missing from the Defense Department's other programs, due to their short contracts and restricted projects.
Strong named several reasons why Hopkins won this nine-year contract over the other universities considered, all factors which have now become distinctive characteristics of the actual center.
The Human Language Technology Center at Hopkins has realized the potential for collaboration among universities that the Department of Defense had predicted; although Hopkins won the contract and runs the program, the Center collaborates in research with the University of Maryland and Carnegie Mellon, among other universities.
Hopkins's Applied Physics Laboratory also works closely with the center in its research and fulfills, as Strong said, "the Defense Department's aim to provide core researchers at a university level." Indeed, Hopkins's ability to draw well-known, accomplished scholars from around the world to participate in the center's research was an equally important criteria.
Thanks to a hard-won contract with the federal government, Hopkins is now doing its part to fight the war on terrorism with its new Human Language Technology Center, which opened in January.
After a highly competitive race, Hopkins beat out several other prestigious universities to receive a Department of Defense grant that established cutting-edge facility.
According to Gary Strong, executive director of the Center, the facility is equipped for "understanding and formulating solutions to the long-term problems in language understanding."
The Human Language Technology Center will fulfill an aspect of language translation that is missing from the Defense Department's other programs, due to their short contracts and restricted projects.
Strong named several reasons why Hopkins won this nine-year contract over the other universities considered, all factors which have now become distinctive characteristics of the actual center.
The Human Language Technology Center at Hopkins has realized the potential for collaboration among universities that the Department of Defense had predicted; although Hopkins won the contract and runs the program, the Center collaborates in research with the University of Maryland and Carnegie Mellon, among other universities.
Hopkins's Applied Physics Laboratory also works closely with the center in its research and fulfills, as Strong said, "the Defense Department's aim to provide core researchers at a university level." Indeed, Hopkins's ability to draw well-known, accomplished scholars from around the world to participate in the center's research was an equally important criteria.
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John Overley
posted 10/28/07 @ 12:23 PM EST
Great article Nicole. Hope you are doing well.
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Nancy Overley
posted 10/29/07 @ 8:18 PM EST
Before reading your article I was unaware of the Human Language Technology Center at Hopkins. Good research. Thanks for providing a concise yet thorough overview of yet another Hopkins "cutting-edge" facility. (Continued…)
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