Pen-based computing and its applications will be explained in a lecture at Sonoma State University at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19 in at the Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar 2009A.
Engineering Sciences Professor Bala Ravikumar will show how the pen is gradually gaining acceptance as an input to personal computers and can enhance them in numreous ways.
He says it helps in creating documents with sketches, mathematical expressions or schematic diagrams. Entering fonts/symbols from non-Roman alphabets can become easier.
The pen also can enhance remote interaction as on-line lectures can bepresented in such a way that the instructor's writing can be broadcast as a sequence of strokes. Students can participate as well by showing their work using a pen-input.
The current state of the technology in tackling these problems will be discussed and some of the completed and ongoing research projects done by engineering sciences students at SSU will be presented.
This Engineering Science series is sponsored by the Agilent Technologies Foundation under the SSU-Agilent Partnership Program. It is designed to benefit high tech and biotech industries and related businesses and community in the North Bay Region as well as the SSU community.
The lecture series covers a broad range of topics with focus on recent developments and trends and provides a platform for the exchange of ideas among the audience.
Attendance is open to engineers and scientists from industries, members of the business community, as well as the general public.
For more on Professor Bala Ravikumar, visit http://ravi.cs.sonoma.edu/.
