HITC senior staff member Michael Harris is chairing a panel at the 1998 SIGGRAPH Conference titled "Interfaces for Humans: Natural Interaction, Tangible Data and Beyond." Huge advances in interface modalities are evident and imminent; Mr. Harris and five interface design luminaries will demonstrate and explore some of the most interesting, promising and clever of these, as well as their integration into powerful multimodal systems.

Say Cheese, Broccoli
May 15, 1998

As much as 10 percent of produce items are mistaken for other varieties at the register--costing either stores or customers a bundle.
Read an article about APRICOTS, published in CIO Magazine.

(USBanker April 1998, Page 18)

Wells Fargo National Bank is the first of three Top-10 banks expected to have in place by the end of this quarter a new imaging technology that can automatically discern the answer to these questions from the security camera's film.  It even looks as though the Customer Activity Analysis (CAA) system, developed by NCR Corp., could make it known whether the customers visiting the branch, ATM, kiosk, or whatever one wishes to observe, are young or old, male or female.  That's the leading edge of this technology, which is essentially unknown to domestic banks, and relatively new to their foreign peers.

HITC's Electronic Commerce Research Lab to help NCR lay out building Blocks for Internet-based Commerce
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