From jpierce@cs.cmu.edu Wed Aug 26 23:40:54 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA18939 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:40:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (IDENT:bo1TUauebXiGgH0z/a8epEvkR1lji52t@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA25448 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu (UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.102]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA27748 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:40:34 PDT Message-Id: <199808270340.UAA27748@wheaten.hitl.washington.edu> Received: from ASYNC14-8.NET.CS.CMU.EDU by ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01045; 26 Aug 98 23:39 EDT X-Sender: jpierce@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:36:12 -0400 To: 3D UI list <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> From: Jeff Pierce Subject: Re: COSMO In-Reply-To: <35E3A734.339A419D@mic.atr.co.jp> References: <199808251515.IAA07198@wheaten.hitl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: RO I wasn't aware of a distinction. Anybody know someone who works at SGI? Jeff At 03:12 PM 8/26/98 +0900, Ivan Poupyrev wrote: >> Ernst is correct, SGI shut down Cosmo. In fact, the head of the >> Cosmo Project (Kai-fu Lee), has already been snapped up by Microsoft >> Research. > >Did they shut down COSMO project or Cosmo Software - a subsidiary of >SGI? Cosmo Software used to be Paragraph International before >they got bought by SGI. They were doing cool handwriting recognition >engines - they gave one to HITL for immersive handwriting (Virtual >Notepad) project. There also was a talk about CosmoGL and SGI Optimizer >is supposedly built on top of it. However I could not really find >much info on CosmoGL when I looked through SGI pages (though >documentation for CosmoGL is online). I wonder if they killed it too ... > >Ivan >-- >Ivan Poupyrev [poup@mic.atr.co.jp/poup@hitl.washington.edu] >Researcher, MIC Labs, ATR International, Japan 0774-951432] >Ph. D. Candidate, ISL, Hiroshima University, Japan 0824-212959] >Visiting Scientist, HITL, University of Washington, US 206-6161474] > http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/poup] >