Fred Jelinek
Fred Jelinek · Technology & Engineering
Computer & information scientist
1932, Kladno, Czechoslovakia — 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Czechoslovakia · United States
Fred Jelinek is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist
Frederick (Fred) Jelinek was a Czech-American information theorist who pioneered statistical, data-driven methods for automatic speech recognition and machine translation at IBM and later directed the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins, reshaping computational linguistics. Born Bedřich Jelínek to a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia, he survived the Holocaust years and emigrated to the United States.
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Computer & information scientist
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