Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Medical Correspondent for CNN ran a piece about Amanda Baggs and blogged about her this week. New Scientist wrote about her and how technology is evolving to help.
But you have to catch Amanda's own video on YouTube (please watch it completely).
"Amanda has what doctors call low-functioning autism. If it were not for
a device that synthesizes words as she types on a keyboard, we would
not have been able to communicate with her at all."
And communicate she does. In her language - and ours.
"Wii goes Enterprise"
Courtesy of Thomas Otter, I saw this post (and related video) where Colgate technical folks played with the "Wiimote", Ruby on Rails and SAP's Business Warehouse - and came up with ...well, not sure anything practical yet. But it is good to see enterprise technologists who generally focus on "Keeping lights on" experiment. And as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, good to see SAP give credit to tis customers, not try to just showcase its own innovations.
February 28, 2007 in Industry Commentary | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)