The Edinburgh-Stanford Link is a £6m research, training and
commercialisation initiative, specialising in speech and language
technology.
The initiative links the UK's top computer science research group, the University of
Edinburgh, with the world's most entrepreneurial, Stanford University in California.
Funded by Scottish Enterprise, the Link exploits the commercial potential
of this research by transferring knowledge and skills into new or existing companies.
Speech technology and language processing research topics range from the
semantic web to software agents with personalities.
The Link also serves as the commercialisation vehicle for the 100+ research staff
investigating human computer interaction (HCI) at the University of Edinburgh.
