ML Day 2014 – Better Letters

English text today is often machine printed or displayed on screens using the same letters that were carved in stone and handwritten on wax and parchment over two thousand years ago. We consider the problem of developing radically different characters for the same underlying twenty-six letter English alphabet, just as Braille or cursive are alternative representations. We discuss optimizing these letters for multiple criteria using crowdsourcing and machine learning.

Date:
Speakers:
Adam Kalai
Affiliation:
Microsoft