Fwd: SF Bay Area ACM: TONIGHT - Speech UIs for Mobile Application & Local Chapter Meeting

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> From: Peter Hui-Yu Ng <[email protected]>
> Date: February 18, 2009 11:48:06 AM PST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: SF Bay Area ACM: TONIGHT - Speech UIs for Mobile  
> Application & Local Chapter Meeting
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> SF Bay Area Chapter ACM
> - Local Chapter Meeting TONIGHT (Feb 18, 2009)
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> Dear Members,
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> Just a kind reminder of tonight's talk by Bill Byrne from Google and  
> our Local Chapter Meeting.
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> Thanks.
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>  Regards,
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> Peter Ng
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> SF Bay Area ACM
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> Monthly Local Chapter Meeting
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> Speech UIs for mobile applications
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> Speaker: Bill Byrne, Google
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> Date: February 18, 2009 (Wednesday), 6:30PM Refreshment ; 7:00PM  
> Presentation
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> Venue: HP (Directions), Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg 48,  
> Oak Room
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> Cost: FREE and open to all who wish to attend; but membership is  
> only $20 annually
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> Topic Details:
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> The growing number of mobile applications with speech is drawing  
> renewed interest in a series of interesting and challenging UI  
> puzzles. In this talk I'll first give a brief overview of the  
> various Google projects that involve speech and then describe the  
> work I'm doing on the design and research of mobile apps with speech.
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> Speaker Bio:
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> Bill Byrne has been designing speech-based applications for the past  
> ten years. He's been at Google since March 2005 and is currently  
> focusing on the design of mobile applications with speech such as  
> the recently released voice search feature on Google Mobile  
> Application for iPhone. He also leads UI design for 800-GOOG-411, a  
> phone-based automated business search application. Bill is  
> consulting professor at Stanford where he's designed and taught  
> courses on voice user interface design. Before Google, Bill was  
> director of speech solutions at SAP Labs, Palo Alto (2001-2005),  
> director of speech and language at General Magic in Sunnyvale  
> (1999-2001) and lecturer at Santa Clara University (1997-2000).
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> Local Chapter Website: http://www.sfbayacm.org
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Nancy Frishberg +1 650 804 5800 mobile
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