On April 12, 2016, the Office of News & Information at University of
Washington (UW) released a news brief entitled UW undergraduate team
wins $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for gloves that translate sign
language. Click here for the brief.
Lance Forshay, Kristi Winter, and Emily Bender of the Department of
Linguistics at University of Washington wrote an open letter of May 23 in
response to the Office of News & Information regarding the SignAloud
project. Click here for the letter.
Thanks to Lance and his colleagues for asking us to share the letter
with SASL members!
Source: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/12/uw-undergraduate-team-wins-10000-lemelson-mit-studentprize-for-gloves-that-translate-sign-language/
The Power of ASL
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Summer 2016 – Issue 2