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{{Short description|Indian computer scientist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = T. V. Raman
| image = TV Raman in October 2011.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1965|05|04}}
| birth_place = [[Pune]], [[India]]<ref name=raman004>{{cite web|last=Raman|first=T. V.|title=Abstract|url=https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/phd-thesis/html/root-thesis.html|work=Audio System for Technical Reading|publisher=emacspeak.sourceforge.net|accessdate=20 June 2012}}</ref>
|alma_mater = ([[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]]) [[Pune University]]<br>([[Master of Science|M.S.]]) [[IIT Bombay]]<br>([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) [[Cornell University]]
| occupation = [[Computer Scientist]], [[Accessibility]] researcher
| awards = [[ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award]], 1994<ref name="award">{{cite web
|url=https://awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation
|title=ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award}}</ref><ref name="RamanThesis">{{cite web
|url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/raman/phd-thesis/aster-thesis.pdf
|title=Audio System for Technical Readings
|type=PhD thesis
|access-date=2022-07-22}}</ref>
| website = https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/
}}
'''T. V. Raman''' (born 4 May 1965) is an [[Indian American]] [[computer scientist]] who specializes in [[accessibility]] research.<ref name="SciAmprof">Gibbs, W.W. (1996) ''Profile: T. V. Raman – Envisioning Speech'', ''[[Scientific American]]'' '''275'''(3), 52-54.</ref> His research interests are primarily in the areas of auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the [[World Wide Web]] at [[Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital]]'s Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), [[Adobe Systems]] and [[IBM Research]].<ref name=guide/> He currently works at [[Google]] Research.<ref name=guide/><ref name=Yegge>{{cite web|url=https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html|accessdate=2012-08-31|title=Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back|date=11 May 2008|publisher=yegge.blogspot.com}}</ref> Raman has himself been [[partially sighted]] since birth, and [[Blindness|blind]] since the age of 14.<ref name="raman004"/><ref name="SciAmprof"/>

== Early life and education ==
He grew up in [[Pune]], [[India]].<ref name="stanford001">{{cite web|url=http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/abstracts/94-95/941028-raman.html|title=PCD Seminar 10/28/94 T.V. Raman|accessdate=2007-11-07|publisher=Stanford University|archive-date=22 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522075101/http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/abstracts/94-95/941028-raman.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Pune-Cities">{{cite web|url=https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/phd-thesis/html/root-thesis.html|author=Raman, T. V|title=Audio System for Technical Readings (Ph.D Thesis)|accessdate=2012-12-28|year=1994|publisher=Cornell University}}</ref> Raman became blind at the age of 14 due to [[glaucoma]],<ref name="guide" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=7248|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060818200810/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=7248|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 August 2006|title=Google for the Blind|first=Jessica|last=Guynn|accessdate=2007-11-14 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | date=19 July 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washington.edu/doit/Newsletters/Dec97/10.html|title=DO-IT Mentor Profile|last=Raman|first=T. V.|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=2007-11-14}}</ref> being previously [[partially sighted]]<ref name="stanford001" /> and able to see with his left eye.<ref name="tom001" /> To deal with his blindness he had his brother, his mentors, and his aide read out textbooks and problems to him. Although unable to see, he was able to solve [[Rubik's Cube]] with a braille version,<ref name="guide">{{cite news |first= Miguel|last= Helft|title=For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can't |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/business/04blind.html | work=[[New York Times]] |date=3 January 2009 |accessdate=2009-01-05 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=747&Itemid=1&ed=17 |title=Second Sight |date=26 April 2010 |first=Brad|last= Herzog |work=Cornell Alumni Magazine|publisher=Cornell University |accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Solving a Braille Rubik's cube|publisher=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSLj3KvkbI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/vSSLj3KvkbI |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|first=Mukkai|last=Krishnamoorthy |date= 14 February 2007|accessdate=2007-11-07}}{{cbignore}}</ref> write [[computer program]]s, and perform mathematics.<ref name="tom001">{{cite web|url=https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/publications/thinking-of-math/thinking-of-math.html|title=Thinking Of Mathematics—An Essay On Eyes-free Computing|author=T. V. Raman|accessdate=2007-11-07|date=25 May 2007|publisher=emacspeak.sourceforge.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/OsgoodFile.html|title= Commentary: Computer Software for the Blind|publisher=CBS |work=The Osgood File|first=Charles|last=Osgood|date=1999-02-11|accessdate=2007-11-07}} (personal archive copy)</ref><ref name="tv001">{{cite web|url=https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html|title= An Essay On Eyes-Free Computing|date=19 May 2007|accessdate=2007-11-07|author=Raman, T. V.}}</ref>

Raman attended the [[University of Pune]] with a BS in mathematics, [[IIT Bombay]] with an MS in mathematics, and [[Cornell University]] earning an MS in computer science and a PhD in [[applied mathematics]] under advisor [[David Gries]]. His PhD thesis titled "Audio System For Technical Readings (AsTeR)"<ref name="RamanThesis" /> was awarded the [[ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award]] in 1994.<ref name="award" />

== Career ==
Recently Raman has incorporated these features in the Chrome browser.<ref name="chrome-aster">[http://allthingsd.com/20130604/t-v-ramans-audio-deja-vu-from-google-a-math-reading-system-for-the-web/ "T.V. Raman's Audio Deja Vu: From Google, a Math-Reading System for the web"]</ref> Raman went on to apply the ideas on audio formatting introduced in AsTeR to the more general domain of computer interfaces [[Emacspeak]]. On 12 April 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's [[National Museum of American History]]. In 2005 he began work at Google.<ref name="guide" /> In 2018, [[IIT, Bombay|IIT Bombay]] felicitated Raman with a Distinguished Alumnus Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iitb.ac.in/alumni/en/awards/2018/distinguished-alumnus/dr-t-v-raman|title=Dr. T. V. Raman {{!}} Alumni and Corporate Relations|language=en|access-date=2018-07-19}}</ref>

== Work ==
* AsTeR – Audio System For Technical Readings
* [[Aural Cascading Style Sheets|Aural CSS]] – producing rich auditory presentations from Web content
* [[Emacspeak]] – the complete audio desktop
* [[XForms]] – Next Generation Web Forms
* [[XML Events]] – A reusable eventing syntax for XML
* [[XHTML+Voice]] – Enabling the multimodal Web via voice interaction
* RDC – Reusable Dialog Components
* AxsJAX – Access Enabling AJAX
* Google Accessible Search – for finding accessible Web content
* Thinking Of Mathematics – Thinking Of Mathematics—An Essay on Eyes-Free Computing
* Eyes-Free – Speech enabled Google Android applications.
* ChromeVox – Screen reader from [[Google Chrome]] and [[ChromeOS]]
* Chakshumati At 10<ref name="Chakshumati">[https://chakshumati.org/ "Chakshmuti in India"]</ref> Eyes-Free Stem Education In India and Chakshumati: Profile Of T.V. Raman<ref name="Chakshumati-talk">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4VZ4uwXGI "Chakshumati: Profile Of T.V. Raman"]</ref>
* Inaugural Ceremony of T V Raman experiential Accessible Computer Science Lab Chennai on Jan 3 2025 at Karnavidya Foundation RR Tower Guindy, Chennai, India<ref name="ComputerScienceLab">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDhFtAxBIA "Inaugural Ceremony of TV Raman CS Lab"]</ref>

==Other interests==
His favorite hobby is recreational mathematics, especially those that involve an intuitive feel for mathematics.<ref name="ZomeTools">Raman, T.V. and Krishnamoorthy, M. S. "Visual Techniques for Computing Polyhedral Volumes."[https://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/raman/publications/polyhedra/paper.html]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ T.V. Raman's Personal Home Page]
* {{MathGenealogy|76621}}

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[[Category:1965 births]]
[[Category:Cornell University alumni]]
[[Category:Blind scholars and academics]]
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[[Category:Scientists from Pune]]
[[Category:Google employees]]
[[Category:IIT Bombay alumni]]
[[Category:American scientists with disabilities]]

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