On BlackBerrys, the keyboard has always been about more than filling in text fields, and the new operating system takes that further.

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In his personal blog Grossman has described how a malicious website could create form text fields, probably invisibly, for the contact info it wanted to extract from a Safari user.

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Optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition are among the fields he has contributed singificantly to.

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The crude green screen interface had fields that needed to be filled in for show titles and genres (effectively turning what would have been text into valuable metadata data about the data) as well as three summaries of different lengths for each show.

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