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08/15/00 to 08/14/01:

   Our workshops continue to be an excellent example of the outreach
   activities in this project. This year, we had 12 participants from
   companies interested in making commercial use of this technology.
   Some of these companies are relatively new to this field and greatly
   appreciated the open access such a workshop provides.

   We also continue to promote participation of undergraduate
   students in our research project. Undergraduates have made
   significant software contributions to this project, and have
   leveraged this experience into significant job opportunies with
   leading companies.

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08/15/99 to 08/14/00:

   Our workshops are an excellent example of the outreach
   activities in this project. Most of the participants 
   represent schools not prominent in the field of speech
   recognition. We have at least one underrepresented
   university participating in our May 2000 workshop. Demand
   for the workshop was so great that we increased
   the size from 8 participants (originally budgeted) to 25
   participants in the first year of the summer workshop.

   We also significantly improved participation of undergraduate
   students from underrepresented groups in our research project
   in the second year of the program.

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08/15/98 to 08/14/99:

   This grant has directly supported the equivalent of four
   full-time graduate students and several
   undergraduates. Undergraduate students have made major
   contributions in web site development, Java programming,
   and speech system tool development.

   We have also interacted with one high school student in
   this program.  This student developed the first version of
   a Swing-based Java applet that is an enhancement of an
   existing applet. He graduated in Spring'99 and is pursuing
   a degree in computer science.