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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: ST Pad specs
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.203104.26357@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 01:31:04 GMT
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In article <2881@atari.UUCP>, trh@atari.UUCP (T R Hall) writes:
>
>     You may feel skeptical, but as the designer of the two machines
>announced, I can tell you that "TOS ... with handwritting recognition" is
>FACT, not conjecture. The HCR code will be in the ROMs (and was, in the Demo
>at CeBIT), and tied into the operating system and desktop such that a gesture
>in the Menu Bar area will bring up a window (as invisibly to existing
>applications as possible) into which Hand-written characters are drawn. As you
>write, the characters are converted to ASCII; when you are satisfied, the
>characters are sent (via the Keyboard input stream) to the application. This
>way, _*existing*_ applications will have HCR capabilitites.
>
>     The "hooks" to call the HCR system will be available to software
>developers, so they may call it directly, to recognize ASCII characters,
>special character sets, or even gestures. This will be part of the standard
>documentation. In case you're curious, the software is a neural-net
>simulation.
>

Wow.  Out of curiosity, has anyone written a paper or something on the 
neural network that you are using?  Did you base this on an existing 
piece of software?

Also, I have yet to see a complete description of the machines (perhaps
our site didn't get that article!?!).  If one has been posted, could 
someone please email it to me?  If it has not, could someone do it!!!

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