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Tuesday, May 14, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56499-2002May8.html A Visual Rather Than Verbal Future Leslie Walker With all due respect to fellow computing gurus around the world, the University of Maryland's Ben Shneiderman doesn't think speech will ever become the main way people communicate with computers. He's convinced our eyes will do better than our voices at helping us control the digital machinery of the 21st century. His explanation seems so simple, so obvious, so testable, that you have to wonder why Microsoft, IBM and other research labs have been spending billions of dollars trying to let us talk to computers the way people did to HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey."...
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