Digital Evolution Continues with Xerox Glyphs
Mike Martin, Sci-Tech Today, January 21, 2005
Petroglyph, hieroglyph, dataglyph -- is this the evolution of the glyph, a small mark or figure that has represented words and concepts throughout the ages?
Xerox researchers think so. They've been perfecting dataglyphs: tiny forward (/) or backward (\) slashes which represent the ones and zeros of binary code.
These micro-marks can be embedded on nearly any kind of document, the researchers say, communicating important information to a computer while the written words on the page speak to a human being.
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