17 Facts About Jaime Carbonell

Jaime Guillermo Carbonell was a computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the development of natural language processing tools and technologies.

Jaime Carbonell joined Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor of computer science in 1979 and lived in Pittsburgh from then.

Jaime Carbonell was affiliated with the Language Technologies Institute, Computer Science Department, Machine Learning Department, and Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon.

Jaime Carbonell's interests spanned several areas of artificial intelligence, language technologies and machine learning.

Jaime Carbonell worked on machine translation, both high-accuracy knowledge-based MT and machine learning for corpus-based MT.

Jaime Carbonell joined Carnegie Mellon in 1979 and became a key faculty member in the artificial intelligence area.

Jaime Carbonell was appointed full professor in 1987, Newell Chair in 1995, and University Professor in 2012.

Jaime Carbonell did his undergraduate studies at MIT, getting dual degrees in Mathematics and Physics.

At the time of his appointment, Jaime Carbonell was the youngest chaired professor in the School of Computer Science at CMU.

Jaime Carbonell was considered creative, insightful, and highly productive as a researcher.

Jaime Carbonell's research spanned several areas of computer science, mostly in artificial intelligence, including: machine learning, data and text mining, natural language processing, very-large-scale knowledge bases, translingual information retrieval and automated summarization.

Jaime Carbonell died following a long illness on February 28,2020.

Jaime Carbonell was instrumental in setting up the Computational Biolinguistics Program, a joint venture between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, which combines Language Technologies and Machine Learning to model and predict genomic, proteomic and glycomic 3D structures.

Jaime Carbonell organized the first four machine learning conferences, starting with CMU in 1981.

The Language Technologies Institute, founded and directed by Jaime Carbonell, achieved top honors in multiple areas.

The teams led by Jaime Carbonell achieved top honors in many areas such as first scalable high-accuracy interlingual machine translation, first speech-to-speech machine translation, first large-scale spider and search engine, and first trainable, large-scale protein-structure topology predictor.

Jaime Carbonell's innovations have led to several successful start-ups: Carnegie Group, Lycos, Wisdom, Carnegie Speech, Dynamix, and Meaningful Machines.