See my Web page for a new article called "Why the Year 2001 Won't Be Like '2001: A Space Odyssey'" http://www.priscilla.com/language.htm The essay describes the current state of research into computers and human language, and explains why we don't have a talking HAL yet. Topics include digitizing speech, compressing digitized speech, applications for digitized speech, speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural-language processing. So why should Group Study care? The first few sections cover topics that CVOICE and CCIE candidates need to know. The paper covers the topics at a high level, so if you are already deep into your CVOICE and CCIE studying, then it may not meed your needs. But it's still a good read! &;-) Find out, for example, why humans can understand the sentence, "Time flies like an arrow," whereas computers get confused by it. Let me know what you think! Thanks. Priscilla ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
