Microsoft Typography | ClearType information | Dick Brass
		Dick Brass Vice President, Technology Development Microsoft Corp. Dick Brass is the vice president of technology development at Microsoft's research division. His responsibilities include organizing and executing Microsoft's effort in the emerging field of electronic book software and "eBook" devices. Before joining Microsoft in November 1997, Brass served eight years at Oracle Corp. -- first as president of Oracle's data publishing subsidiary, and then as Oracle's senior vice president for corporate affairs. In the mid-1980s, Brass founded General Information Inc., which produced some of the first software telephone directories, as well as popular business directories in print form. Brass is perhaps best known for developing the first dictionary-based spelling checker software and the first electronic thesaurus -- The Random House Electronic Thesaurus -- in 1981. His firm, Dictronics Publishing, acquired the exclusive electronic rights to many of the world's most important reference works, including The Random House Dictionary, Roget's International Thesaurus, Black's Law Dictionary, the Chicago Manual of Style and similar works from around the world. After Wang Laboratories Inc. purchased Dictronics in 1983, Brass served as director of electronic publishing. In the 1970s, Brass was features editor of the Daily News in New York City. He also reported for WNBC-TV, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. Brass attended Cornell University. He is 47 and lives in Seattle with his wife, Regina, a physician. ######### Microsoft and ClearType are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. this page was last updated 15 November 1998 © 1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of use. comments to the ClearType group: how to contact us
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