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Renaissance Technologies

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'In recent years, Simons seems to be especially keen on stockpiling computational linguists who have worked on building computers that can recognize speech. He has hired away a good part of the speech recognition group from IBM. Why computational linguists? Investing and speech recognition are very similar", says one Renaissance researcher. "In both, you're trying to guess the next thing that happens."'