This past year, I had the pleasure of advising a few students from my
alma mater, Oberlin College, as part of a new entrepreneurial program. Due to their hard work and keen business plan, they received a grant from the program to kick off their new venture: developing an application to help Chinese language learners learn to write the characters more efficiently. You can see this new application at skritter.com, and check out the Skritter blog for details of their development process. At the site, you can even try out parts of the product in order to help train their system and improve the recognition capabilities, which I encourage everyone to do. It's really exciting to see this all come together for them, and I wish them the best of luck as they push towards their 1.0 release.