T. V. Raman

T. V. Raman

T. V. Raman is a blind computer scientist born and raised from Pune, India.cite web|url=http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/abstracts/94-95/941028-raman.html|title=PCD Seminar 10/28/94 T.V. Raman|accessdate=2007-11-07|publisher=Stanford University] His accessibility research interests are primarily auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the World Wide Web at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), Adobe Systems and IBM Research. He presently works at Google Research ["And you know, T.V Raman, you know, research scientist at Google, who, he doesn't have the use of his sight... he's a completely fully productive programmer, more so than I am, because Emacs is his window to the world. It's his remote control. EmacsSpeak is his thesis. It's amazing to watch him work." http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html] .

Raman succumbed to blindness at the age of 14 brought about from glaucoma, [cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=7248|title=Google for the blind|first=Jessica|last=Guynn|accessdate=2007-11-14] [cite web|url=http://www.washington.edu/doit/Newsletters/Dec97/10.html|title=DO-IT Mentor Profile|last=Raman|first=T. V.|accessdate=2007-11-14] being partially sighted and able to see with his left eye. To deal with his blindness he had his brother, his mentors, and his aid read out textbooks and problems to him. Although unable to see, he was able to solve Rubik's Cube, [cite web|url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=vSSLj3KvkbI|title=Solving a Braille Rubik's cube|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=2007-11-07] [cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,30000-1288940,.html|title=Watch Blind Man Solve Rubik's Cube|publisher=Sky News|accessdate=2007-11-07] write computer programs, and perform mathematics. [cite web|url=http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/OsgoodFile.html|title= Commentary: Computer software for the blind|publisher=CBS|work=The Osgood File|first=Charles|last=Osgood|date=1999-02-11|accessdate=2007-11-07] cite web|url=http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html|title= An Essay On Eyes-Free Computing|date=2007-05-19|accessdate=2007-11-07|author=T. V. Raman] cite web|url=http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/publications/thinking-of-math/thinking-of-math.html|title=Thinking Of Mathematics—An Essay On Eyes-free Computing|author=T. V. Raman|accessdate=2007-11-07|date=2007-05-25]

Raman attended the University of Pune with a BA in mathematics, IIT Bombay with a MSc in computer science, and Cornell University earning a MS in computer science and a PhD in applied mathematics. His PhD thesis entitled [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/phd-thesis/ Audio System For Technical Readings] (AsTeR) was awarded the [http://www.acm.org/awards/dd_citation/1994B.html ACM Dissertation Award] in 1994.

Raman went on to apply the ideas on audio formatting introduced in AsTeR to the more general domain of computer interfaces Emacspeak. On April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Work

* [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/aster/aster-toplevel.html AsTeR] -- Audio System For Technical Readings
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/aural.html Aural CSS] -- producing rich auditory presentations from Web content
* [http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ Emacspeak] -- the complete audio desktop
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/ XForms] -- Next Generation Web Forms
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-events/ XML Events] -- A reusable eventing syntax for XML
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml+voice/ XHTML+Voice] -- Enabling the multimodal Web via voice interaction
* [http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/rdc-doc/intro.html RDC] -- Reusable Dialog Components
* [http://labs.google.com/accessible/ Google Accessible Search] -- for finding accessible Web content
* [http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/publications/thinking-of-math/ Thinking Of Mathematics] -- Thinking Of Mathematics -- An Essay on Eyes-Free Computing

References

External links

* [http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ T.V. Raman's Personal Home Page]


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