sentences:  From 1990 to 2000, Hanks served as chief editor of current English dictionaries at Oxford University Press (OUP).In 1991 to 1992, he was joint principal investigator (with Mary-Claire van Leunen) of the HECTOR project at the Systems Research Center of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Palo Alto, CA.The HECTOR project was a collaboration between OUP and DEC, and although its results were never published, they served as a basis for the "New Oxford Dictionary of English" (1998), while the lexicographers working on it were also guinea-pig users in the development of one of the earliest search engines (AltaVista).