Meeting facilities
The meeting will use conference spaces at MIT that include
a state-of-the-art amphitheater-style lecture hall and adjacent
areas for posters and refreshments. All these spaces are close
to the offices and labs of the Speech Communication Group
at MIT. MIT’s new Stata
Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences,
a complex of interconnected buildings designed by Frank Gehry
that promises to be a major architectural landmark, is slated
for occupancy in January and completion in the spring of 2004
and is the most likely site for the meeting.
Banquet
A banquet is scheduled for Saturday evening. It is a New-England
style clambake that will be held at Thompson
Island in Boston Harbor. The clambake will also serve
as an occasion to honor Prof. Kenneth Stevens. Prof. Stevens
has trained a large number of speech scientists, many of whom
have gone on to hold leading positions in academia and industry.
He is very active as a teacher, mentor and research scientist
and, in 2005, he will have been on the MIT faculty for 50
years.
Registration
On-line registration is now closed. On-site registration is
on a space-available basis. Banquet tickets are not available
for purchase on-site due to scheduling requirements.
Conference Support
We have already received generous pledges from several sources
at MIT, including: the Research Laboratory of Electronics
(RLE), half of which is earmarked for student participation;
the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL); the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
(HST), all of which is earmarked for student participation;
and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
(EECS). We have also have applied for external funds. In addition,
a number of individuals have generously provided support.
If you are interested in supporting the conference, we'd be
happy to send you information. You can write to us at speech50@speech.mit.edu,
with the subject line "Requesting Information on Supporting
Conference".
Accommodations
Conference Hotel:
A block of rooms has been reserved for the nights of June
10-13, 2004 at the Cambridge Marriott (2 Cambridge Center,
Cambridge, MA 02142) at a rate of $169.00 per night (single
or double), plus applicable taxes. This special rate is
available until the conference block is sold out or until
the cut-off date of May 1, 2004, whichever comes first.
The central hotel reservations phone number is 800-228-9290.
When making your reservation please mention that you are
calling for the MIT Sound to Sense Room Block at the Marriott
Hotel in Cambridge Massachusetts. Reservations must be made
directly with the hotel reservation staff; the MIT Conference
Services Office does not handle individual reservations.
On-campus housing:
On-campus accommodations will be available in both air-conditioned
single and double rooms (one double bed) or non-air-conditioned
single and double (two single beds) rooms. Anticipated room
rates for 2004 will be between $67.00 to $115.00 per night
for the air-conditioned rooms and between $ 40.00 to 75.00
for the non air-conditioned rooms. General information on
housing is available at: http://web.mit.edu/conf-serv/www/STS/stshousing.html.
Confirmed 2004 rates and on-campus housing request forms
are anticipated to be available in mid to late March.
Parking
There is no conference parking available on the MIT campus.
Public parking is available in the garage next to the Cambridge
Marriott Hotel at 4 Cambridge Center, on the corner of Ames
Street and Broadway and in the garage located next to the
University Park hotel off of Massachusetts Avenue on 20 Sidney
Street. There is also a small public lot on the corner of
Vassar Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Rates are approximately
$20.00 per day.
Maps and Directions
Maps and Directions are available at http://whereis.mit.edu/
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