Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
Publication
Language modeling for soft keyboards
Project
MindNet
Overview MindNet is a knowledge representation project that uses our broad-coverage parser to build semantic networks from dictionaries, encyclopedias, and free text. MindNets are produced by a fully automatic process that takes the input text,…
Video
Demonstration of Priorities & Notification Platform (2001)
Eric Horvitz with Bill Gates at Envision 2001 In this 2001 video, Bill Gates hosts Eric Horvitz at the Envision 2001 meeting. Eric demonstrates the Priorities and Notification Platform systems. Priorities, fielded internally at Microsoft…
Publication
A Perspective of Generative Reuse
Publication
A Real-Time Head Nod and Shake Detector
Publication
Toward More Sensitive Mobile Phones
Project
Whistler Text-to-Speech Engine
The talking computer HAL in the 1968 film “2001-A Space Odyssey” had an almost human voice, but it was the voice of an actor, not a computer. Getting a real computer to talk like HAL…
Project
MyLifeBits
MylifeBits is a lifetime store of everything. It is the fulfillment of Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Memex vision including full-text search, text & audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The book Total Recall (paperback title Your Life, Uploaded) is the…