This paper introduces the EU-FP7 project CLARIN, a joint effort of over 150 institutions in Europe, aimed at the creation of a sustainable language resources and technology infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences research community. The paper briefly introduces the vision behind the project and how it relates to speech research with a focus on the contributions that CLARIN can and...

Over the last decade significant progress in optoelectronic devices and their integration techniques have made Free-Space Optical Interconnects (FSOI) one of the few physical approaches that can potentially address the increasingly complex communication requirements at the board-to-board and chip-to-chip levels. In this paper, we review the recent advances made and discuss future research direc...