Charles Lynn Wayne

Charles Lynn Wayne (1943 – November 23, 2024) was an American program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was instrumental in creating the Common Task Method for advancing speech recognition and natural language processing technologies by centering around public benchmarks and datasets, and in establishing Human Language Technology (HLT) initiatives programs at DARPA including TIDES (Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization) and EARS (Effective, Affordable, Reusable Speech-to-Text).