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No one knows you're not a dog!	Nor if you're the same dog!	Or even the same gender!
(2/15/1987—12/05/1999)	(12/21/1997—4/11/2011)	(8/4/2009—9/3/2022)

PhD, Cornell University, 1994	ACM Dissertation Award	Digital PR
Phone: 1 650 799-5724	(GPG)	Email: tv.raman.tv
Current Resume		Print Ready Resume

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I am tv.raman.tv on Blogger; I Tweet using handle tvraman on Twitter. You can follow my publications via my Google Scholar Profile.

Site Overview

• Emacspeak A full-fledged speech interface.
• AsTeR -- Demo
• PhD Thesis
• Publications
• My Guiding Eyes.

Locate My Publications

XForms --- XML Powered Web Forms

Auditory User Interfaces

Audio System For Technical Readings (LNCS 1410)

Recent Articles

Here are pointers to some recent articles describing my work.

• Chakshumati At 10 Chakshumati: Eyes-Free Stem Education In India
• Article in Marathi by Prof. Limaye (IITB). Audio version read by Jaydeep Chippalkatti
• Eyes-Free Computing: Past, Present And FutureKeynote At Empower 2018, IIT Delhi, October 2018.
• Eyes-Free Computing: Looking Back, Looking Forward IIT Bay Area Technology Conference, June 2018.
• Enabling Equal Access To All UsersSDF-2012: May 22, 2012, Seoul, South Korea.
• Keynote: UIC Digital Access Forum, April 2012. HTML, PDF, Audio
• SIGIR 2010: Toward Accessible Search Systems Keynote at Workshop on Accessible Search, Geneva, July 23, 2010
• CloudComputing --- Access -- --Opportunity Or Challenge Keynote: Accessing Higher Ground, November 2009.
• CACM February 2009: Beyond Web-2.0 --- Toward 2^W!
• NY Times, January 4, 2009 Profiles work at Google as well as prior work on accessibility.
• Fast Company on Google. Full text of the article is here.
• The Web The Way You Want This will form the basis of this talk at UW. This also formed an early draft of the chapter on Specialized Browsers in this book from Springer
• Thinking Of Mathematics — An Essay On Eyes-free Computing.
• Structured Math On The Web — First 10 Years Of MathML Opening keynote at the IMA Workshop on the Evolution Of Math Communication.
• Web Applications — Access Challenge Or Opportunity? Opening keynote at Capacity Building Institute Seattle, UW.
• Global Learn Day 2006. Archived audio at Equal Access To Information Raises All Boats.
• SJ Mercury profile entitled Engineer's focus: accessible technology for all, published by the San Jose Mercury News, July 2, 2003. printer friendly version note that the geometric models you see in the print article are Zome models built using Zome Systems polyhedral building kit --- this is also refered to in the article as the childrens toy. See scanned images for the pictures from the article.
• XML Journal, February 2003. Collecting Business Critical Information Using XForms
• Multimodal Interaction Design Principles For Multimodal Interaction, MMI Workshop, CHI 2003
• XML Journal, April 2003 X+V 1.1 ---Versatile Multimodal Solutions.
• EuroSpeech 2003 Tutorial on Conversational And Multimodal Interaction.
• Recreational Mathematics: Volumes of regular polyhedra Computing volumes of regular polyhedra using Zome models.
• Welcome To Fancy Colored Paper Universe PDF version An article outlining the importance of interchangeable electronic information.
• Speech-enabling the Semantic WWW PDF version
• TechWeek On Auditory User Interfaces And Equal Access (May 17, 1999).
• T. V. Raman User Interface --A Means To An End Dr. Dobb's Journal, Online Op-Ed, August 18, 1997.
• Emacspeak: A Speech-enabling Interface Dr. Dobb's Journal, September 1997.
• T. V. Raman: Net Surfing Without A Monitor Scientific American (Internet Special) March 1997, (Used to be at http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397raman.html).
• Wayte Gibbs: Envisioning Speech Scientific American Profile, September, 1996, ( Used to be at http://www.sciam.com/0996issue/0996profile.html) and appears to be browssable for now at Scientific American Digital.
• Brian Hayes: Speaking Of Mathematics American Scientist, March 1996. Retrieved from American Scientist

My Guiding Eyes

In Praise Of Guide-Dogs

Aster Labrador: February 15, 1987 -- December 5, 1999

I obtained my first guide-dog, Aster Labrador, a strong and energetic female black Labrador from Guiding Eyes in January 1990 --you will see her prominently featured in all of my work during the 1990's. Here is Aster Labrador's WWW site. Aster worked for 10 full years and was with me through the 1990's.

Hubbell (Bubbles)Labrador:December 21, 1997 -- April 11, 2011

Aster II --a bubbling young yellow Labrador named Hubbell (Bubbles) graduated from Guiding Eyes in February 2000; here is Bubbles' WWW site. While at Guiding Eyes in February 2000, I wrote a short guide-dog work FAQ; I also wrote up a daily log of what we did in class each day. Bubbles worked for 11 years and 2 months, and went to sleep peacefully on April 11, 2011 at 13:42 PDT. You can read Bubbles life story in her own words on this blog.

Tilden Labrador: August 4, 2009 --- September 3, 2022

Guide-dog 3 Tilden Labrador, a strong male yellow Labrador with a large and level head. You can read about his arrival in the The Tilden Diary. Tilden worked for 13 years and 1 month, and went to sleep peacefully on September 3, 2022.