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Monday, March 15, 2004
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Personal medical devices: "Ben Shneiderman’s students [work] on interfaces for “personal medical devices”—like the monitors used by diabetics to record blood sugar, for example. [...] Shneiderman told us about a physician he’s been working with at Johns Hopkins who wants to work on how these devices record and report data, so that they (a) better match patient needs for record-keeping..." [mamamusings]
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This is how PowerPoint was born -- Comment()
Background on Microsoft PowerPoint: "Although now a Microsoft product, PowerPoint was originally developed by Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student who envisioned an easy-to-use presentation program that would manipulate a string of single pages, or "slides". [...] PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987 and was originally only available for the Apple Macintosh, and only in black-and-white. It generated text-and-graphics pages that a photocopier could turn into overhead transparencies." I didn't realize that PowerPoint was first a Mac product, in the same way as Excel was. And that originally PowerPoint was not a Microsoft product.
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