Dear members,

I hope most of you have already submitted their paper for Interspeech that will take place in Lyon in August and hope to have the pleasure to meet many of you in this very appealing city.

Among the numerous new inputs in this March issue ( new conferences and new job openings), I would stress two ones that I am particularly pleased to announce.

First, I would like to join my personal congratulations tto my friend Sadaoki Furui who has been appointed President of the Toyota Technological Institue of Chicago and who will remain active at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Second, in my first years of activity in speech processing, I met a very active young researcher in Grenoble where he invited me to visit him and demonstrated with an exceptional enthusiasm his articulated lip models. He proposed me to start a cooperation and a few months later. I was informed that he suddenly passed over. This bright researcher was Christian Benoit.  Each time I publish the announcement of the Christian Benoit award, I see and hear his frank laugh in front of me.

 Professor emeritus Chris Wellekens

Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France

ISCApad editor

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