Soldiering on
It is a crisp, early Wednesday evening on the west side of
campus. On Homewood Field, the final whistle blows on a
men's soccer match. Fans stand up and cheer, then amble down
to the field to congratulate a Blue Jays team that has just
won its eighth straight game. The hum of casual conversation
and nearby traffic fills the air as the dispersing crowd
grows into a sea of smiles and hugs.
Some 50 yards to the north, inside a
utilitarian, gray-painted building, a whole other scene is
taking place.
The facility's large, wood-floored hall,
quiet and empty moments before, now begins to fill with the
stomping boots and clatter of more than 40 uniformed cadets,
who are quickly ordered into formation. As they line up
eight wide and six deep, the shuffling of feet echoes
slightly before perfect quiet descends.
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An 'ear' for Holocaust
memoirs
Johns Hopkins engineers are developing a speech recognition
system that will help historians sift through thousands of
hours of interviews collected from Holocaust survivors and
witnesses in languages other than English. The system is
intended to be a key component of an innovative "audio
search engine" that would allow historians and educators to
comb easily through a vast collection of videotaped
interviews to find personal accounts of specific Holocaust
experiences.
The Hopkins engineers are part of a
multi-institution team that just received a $7.5 million
National Science Foundation grant, to be disbursed over five
years. The NSF grant was awarded to Los Angeles-based
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to fund
research efforts at Johns Hopkins, IBM and the University of
Maryland.
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