SASL Newsletter - Summer 2016 Issue | Page 10

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 10 Summer 2016 – Issue 2