The Science Museum Joins the Party at Acorn World '93 Release Date 17th September 1993 The Science Museum, a long term Acorn partner, will have a high profile at Acorn World '93. As well as providing consultancy and advice on the exhibits in the Acorn Gallery, the Museum has taken a stand and will be giving one of the presentations in the theatre programme. The Science Museum's stand will be used to demonstrate how Acorn computers are used to provide interactive information to visitors throughout the museum. The Science Museum has been a customer of Acorn's for 10 years and, today, over 90% of its computer-based exhibits run on Acorn platforms. A recent example is the Museum's 'Science Box' exhibition on DNA finger printing - one of a series of exhibitions on contemporary science issues. Visitors were invited to enter information via a touchscreen into an Acorn Computer. Information is then fed back to them on the number of other people who have used this exhibit that share the same characteristics. Apart from the Science Museum, there are many other companies demonstrating their interactive technology on Acorn computers at the show. Longman Logotron will be demonstrating Talking PenDown, its word processor which can speak letters, words and sentences as they are typed in. Immediate speech feedback allows children to see and hear their text simultaneously and correct their mistakes as they type. (As well as launching a new version of its RISC OS relational database, S-Base 2, Longman will also be demonstrating the powerful Eureka 2 spreadsheet and PinPoint 2, its data handling application.) Wyddfa Software, which produces educational software for young children and those with special educational needs, will be demonstrating its latest product, Talking Stories. This interactive system encourages children to learn to read and write by generating stories. The text of the story appears on screen with various words missing. The next page of the story is not displayed until the children select the correct words to fill the spaces. Wyddfa's established Talking Pictures and The Spoken Word will also be on display. With the theme of 'Vision for the Future', Acorn World is set to be the largest ever showcase for Acorn products and services worldwide. Taking place at Wembley from 29-31 October 1993, the exhibition will have a futuristic theme and includes a series of dedicated feature areas. These will offer a glimpse of technological innovation in the education, publishing, professional services and home business sectors. A high level theatre programme will accompany the exhibition, at which industry experts will give their views on a range of business and technical, educational and leisure topics. _______________________________________________________________________________ aglo...@acorn.co.uk, moderator of comp.sys.acorn.announce. Submissions to announce-requ...@acorn.co.uk, other related mail to announ...@acorn.co.uk.