Dear ISCA members,

While many of you have already heard, we are sorry to announce the
passing of Fred Jelinek. Fred was a giant in the speech and language
area. He pioneered and tirelessly promoted the application of
statistical methods to speech and language processing. When he first
began in the early 1970s, the concept was extremely controversial;
today this approach is taken for granted. Fred received numerous
awards in his long, distinguished career, included being named an
ISCA Medalist in 1999 and an ISCA Fellow in 2008. Fred had been the
long-term director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for
Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) and the Julian Sinclair Smith
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. A more detailed
description of his life and work, as well as information for those
interested in making contributions in his memory can be found on the
CLSP website (http://clsp.jhu.edu/
). He will be greatly missed but his legacy to us will continue.

Isabel Trancoso, ISCA president 

and the ISCA board