“By putting a personality onscreen that winks at you and can smile at you, we are expanding the interface to allow for very natural ways for people to share information with the computer.”
Tandy Trower, director of Microsoft’s advanced user interface design group, on the resurrection of Bob as “Microsoft Agent,” New York Times CyberTimes, 2 October 1997
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