TALK TO YOUR COMPUTER, SAYS GATES

29 February 2008

In the future people will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards


People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, software pioneer and guru Bill Gates told an audience on one of his farewell tour addresses this week. The Microsoft founder and chairman will withdraw from his company's day-to-day operations in July to focus on philanthropy.

"It's one of the big bets we're making," Gates told students and faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University, revealing that in five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard,

Yahoo News reports that Gates opined the software that is proliferating in various branches of science, including biology and astronomy must become even more advanced. "They're dealing with so much information that ... the need for machine learning to figure out what's going on with that data is absolutely essential," he said.

Microsoft is trying to establish ties not only with university computer science departments but also with reseachers in other scientific areas "...to help us understand where new inventions are necessary," Gates said.

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