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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Netguest" data-source="post: 1493061" data-attributes="member: 82889"><img src="http://photo.worldnews.com/PhotoArchive//2008/02/23/c6b6898d164889977c2b02d06e45b7c0-grande.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />PITTSBURGH, Feb 22: People will increasingly interact with computers using  speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill  Gates said.“It’s one of the big bets we’re making,” he said during the  final stop of a farewell tour before he withdraws from the company’s daily  operations in July.In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet  searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard, Gates told  about 1,200 students and faculty members on Thursday at Carnegie Mellon  University.Gates also said the software that is proliferating in various  branches of science, including biology and astronomy must become even more  advanced.“They’re dealing with so much information that ... the need for  machine learning to figure out what’s going on with that data is absolutely  essential,” he said.Microsoft is trying to establish ties not only with  university computer science departments but also with researchers in other  scientific areas “to help us understand where new inventions are necessary,”  Gates said.Gates plans to retire as Microsoft’s chief software architect  in July and focus on philanthropy.—AP</blockquote>

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