Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

Back to the Future of Hand   riting Recognition An Active Essay Revisiting the GRAIL Handwriting Recognizer Jack Schaedler, 2016 Fifty years ago, RAND corporation developed the Graphical Input Language software system (GRAIL). In a RAND memorandum from 1966, the stated objective of GRAIL was to, “Investigate methods by which a user may deal directly, naturally, and easily with [their] problem.” Users communicated with GRAIL using a pen-like instrument and tablet. GRAIL had no mous