After receiving his PhD from Cornell University in 1994, T. V. Raman worked at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Cambridge Research Lab (CRL) until September 1995. He worked at Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., on electronic documents and information reuse until August 1999. He also continued to work on speech interaction and published a book, Auditory User Interfaces: Toward the Speaking Computer (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997). Raman now works on the next-generation conversational and multimodal web at IBM Research.