You are here: silicon.com > Hardware > PDAs

Computers learn body talk

Can there really be a Human Markup Language...

By Pia Heikkila

Published: 31 August 2001 14:13 BST

American boffins could be calling an end to human language-based computer programming with a system based on abstract non-verbal communication.

US web standards group, the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), is building what it calls Human Markup Language (HumanML).

The specifications for writing non-verbal human communications for HumanML allows software engineers to write code based on abstract communications such as physical expressions of emotions such as crying, laughing and smiling.

HumanML is said to be compatible with XML - web page designing language - and could be used in artificial intelligence applications.

OASIS has called for developers to contribute to the language, which it intends to make available for free. The first meeting will be held on 17 September 2001.

Add comment

Print story

Email story

RSS

ebXML standards effort grows

XML: Cultural problems holding back a killer technology?

Common language of communication approved

Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML): The Standard XML Framework for Secure Information Exchange

HumanML & Government Related IT Directives (Part One)

In silicon.com

Commentary

Naked CIO Naked CIO: Fishing for data Not all information is created equal

silicon.com Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag… Reader Comments of the Week

Steve Ranger Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum Nostalgia 2.0...

Latest News

Windows Mobile v BlackBerry in server showdown

Holograms on handsets by 2010

iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat

Ubuntu Linux goes mobile

Gazing into the technological future

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

Jobs

Calling all Graduate / Junior C++ Software Engineers....Southampton

Calling all Graduate / Junior C++ Software Engineers. We are interested to hear from you if you are a Bright Graduate Software Engineer who is ...

Senior C++ Software Engineers - Multinational Technology Provider

Huxley Associates are recruiting on behalf of a Multinational provider of Software to the Utilities sector to find C++ Software Engineers. This will ...

Windows C++ Software Engineers - Portsmouth

Windows C++ Software Engineers required to work for leading Technology provider in the Portsmouth area. We are looking for talented software ...

Special Report Focus

CIO50 2008
The silicon.com CIO50 2008 profiles the most influential and innovative tech chiefs in the UK across all industries and organisation size, from the biggest FTSE100 companies to high growth dot-com start ups and the public sector. The list was voted on by the UK CIO community and a panel of experts. Find out more in our latest special report.