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To: Snowshoe who wrote (6053)	8/11/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: bythepark	Respond to of 10309

GregM, Thanks for the Heads Up on Criterion/WIND. Here's what I have turned up on Criterion Software Ltd. <http://www.csl.com/corporate/coinfo.html> > Criterion Software is a company established in 1993 now commercially > developing games software with RenderWare, unique 3-D software developed > at Canon Research Centre Europe. <snip> > Criterion Software has recently announced that it will partner with Sony > Computer Entertainment to deliver RenderWare as the middleware for Next > Generation PlayStation. <http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/press/tenyearpr.htm> Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) was set up 10 years ago to develop, market and support Useable Multimedia software products... > Usable Multimedia > CRE's vision of the future is one in which multimedia content and services > will be usable; usable at work, usable at home, usable in any way you want > to use them. > To achieve this it is necessary to understand multimedia information - > data, structured and unstructured; audio; images, still and moving; all the > media types and their combinations. Second, Canon?s role will be to enable > interaction with that information in ways that are appropriate for both the > user and the media, termed multimodal interaction. > CRE?s work into these domains is organized around five co-operating themes; > Knowledge Management, Retrieval, Imaging, Machine Listening and Interaction. Canon has a lot of products to support ... Maybe UcanTalk will play a part here as well in the world of computer Gaming? <http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/techover/adroit.htm> > User documentation for Canon's products starts life in Japanese and then > gets translated into English. For the European markets, this needs to be > translated into several European languages, at least 10 and often as many > as 20, depending upon where the product is to be marketed. As you can > imagine this poses a significant problem for Canon Europa, Canon's > European HQ. <snip> > Criterion Expands Partnership With Wind River Systems > 8/6/99ÿ Criterion Software Ltd. has announced that Criterion's UCanTalk > suite will be the speech recognition solution in Wind River Systems' Wind > River Direct program, a unique extension to the WindLink Partner Program > through which customers can purchase comprehensive and integrated embedded > development solutions from a single source. I am sure that the more technical members of this thread will help us understand how all this might affect WIND, but in the meantime it certainly looks to me that WIND is continuing to methodically partner its technology with real heavyweights ... --alan