Royal Inst Christmas Lecture 2008 - Predictive Texting

[Gerb]

In the Lecture of Christmas 2008 on Computer Technology, there was an item done on predictive texting. Professor Chris Bishop demonstrated a software tool where you dragged a pointer to the right edge of the screen and it predicted the next letter / word / phrase based on probability. The higher the probability of what was anticipated, the larger the text. you then ran the pointer over the text to select it. The whole thing ran as a smooth animation.

Can anyone tell me what that specific software was called ?

[VHG]

Yes I watched them all.

Dont know the answer, but maybe their web site can help you:

http://www.rigb.org/christmaslectures08/

I notice the "research" link on the web site (bottom right) takes you to the Microsoft research page so maybe look on there.

[VHG]

Found it.

Searching for "predictive text" and "Microsoft research" got me there.

It is called Dasher, web site here

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/

[VHG]

You can even use it here

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/TryJ avaDasherNow.html

[Gerb]

Woohoo. That's the one. I did go to the RI website. Found the lecture but not the software. Thought this would be one of the unanswerable ones. Thanks for your time, you rock.

[BillySugger]

Type Smirnoff using predictive text , see what you get