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Sun's recent acquisition of CenterRun extends the N1 architecture to include automated application and service provisioning across servers. The substantial benefits - accelerated deployment, reduced costs and increased availability - are field proven, measurable and available today, not tomorrow. Join host Yael Zheng, Senior Director, N1 Marketing, as she leads Ed Turner, Architecture Manager, and Charlie Boyle, N1 Business Development Manager, in a discussion of the next phase in the evolution of N1, Sun's revolutionary architecture for managing entire network computing systems. tech news

This paper how to find the best path through the voice user interface (VUI) terrain and learn how to balance technological requirements and usability principles to produce superior speech interfaces. tech news

This white paper provides an overview of the handwriting recognition feature of Microsoft Office XP. The handwriting recognition feature in Microsoft Office XP allows user to enter text by writing instead of typing. One can enter text by using a handwriting device, such as a digital pen and tablet, or user can write by using mouse. tech news

This paper introduces the concept of The Object Management Group's Model Driven Architecture (MDA), a higher level of abstraction to traditional software design and development, enabling organizations to create models that are in essence application ''blueprints.'' MDA has three cornerstones: multiple models at various abstraction levels, transformations between these models, and support for the MDA set of standards as defined by OMG. However, MDA will become a viable, long-term architecture only when MDA-compliant vendors automate otherwise labor-intensive transformations between models. tech news

This paper describes the speech components, technology advances, and measurement systems involved in synthetic speech technology. It was written for IT managers and staff who are evaluating synthetic speech systems. tech news