Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking 20 years suffers from a disease that gradually deprived of mobility many parts of his body, and for many years he has to communicate with the world through computer technology, typing text on computer and passing it through a speech synthesizer. It is obvious that attending one of the best minds thoughts are very valuable to society, so Intel is helping to Stephen Hawking to communicate with others since 1997.
Past three years, a group of Intel engineers worked on the development of the interface system that allows Stephen Hawking to type and control the cursor on the display attached to his computer chair. Professor forced to operate the system using eye movements and muscle contractions cheeks. Infrared sensor fitted on the eyeglass frame, fixes a "confirmation" of the operation, and the cursor on the display constantly goes through letters. If Hawking is necessary to enter the selected
character, he just "stop" running the cursor on this symbol with the help of muscle contraction cheek. The professor was fundamentally opposed to change the interface of the system and replace the existing sensors, which over the years he has become accustomed. This wish was considered by Intel employees , so improvements were aimed at simplifying common operations such as switching windows, opening and saving files, call searches. In this direction, by improving the interface
achieved a 10-fold increase in productivity.
In addition, Hawking has had an opportunity to double the speed of typing, mainly due to the predictive function SwiftKey - mobile users familiar with similar technology T9. Now Hawking enough to gain no more than 20% of the characters, word endings for it appends a computer algorithm, having the ability to learn and memorize the habits of the user. Intel is going to give these developments to all interested in the creation of systems that can make life easier for people with disabilities. Note
that Samsung last week demonstrated the system EyeCan +, which allows partially paralyzed people to control a cursor on a computer screen using eye. It is gratifying that science aims to help people who are deprived of most of the usual features.
It is noteworthy that Hawking warned the public about the dangers of artificial intelligence technologies hobbies. According to him, people are not able to evolve as quickly as artificial intelligence, but because they can be suppressed. Change the voice synthesizer on system more perfect Hawking also refused, because it believes this "robot voice" its well-recognized feature, though he gives the speech of the British scientist typical American accent.
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