Raj Reddy, former SCS dean and the Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, called Jaime the "godfather of language technologies."

Jaime grew up in Spanish-speaking Uruguay before his family moved to Boston when he was nine. He earned his bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics at MIT, where he translated computer manuals into Spanish part-time and developed machine-translation tools to speed up the process. Thus began a fascination with machine translation that would stay with him the rest of his life.

After earning his master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science at Yale, Jaime joined CMU in 1979 and led teams that developed knowledge-based machine translation of text as well as speech-to-speech translation. He invented a number of well-known algorithms and methods, including maximal marginal relevance (MMR) for summarizing text and a type of machine learning called proactive learning. He created the university's Ph.D. program in language technologies, and founded the Center for Machine Translation, which became the Language Technologies Institute. He also co-created the Universal Library and its Million Book Project. That's just scratching the surface of his accomplishments and contributions.

Jaime also advised more than 60 Ph.D. students who continue to spread his influence through the world, along with his "Bill of Rights": getting the right information to the right people at the right time in the right language in the right medium with the right level of detail.

For a full recounting of Jaime's career and life, read his obituary.