“After a few questions we could very quickly figure out what level you are at and the optimal piece of content for teaching,” Mr. Ferreira said. Mr. Ferreira, 51, left to start Bakpax. At its core, Bakpax is a computer vision system that converts handwriting to text and interprets what the student meant to say. “We can even tell you what the right answer is for the ones you got wrong.”Mrs. Turner said her students loved the immediacy. “There’s a lot of power in all this information that, right now, literally is just thrown in the trash every day,” Mr. Ferreira said.

Source: New York Times December 18, 2019 09:56 UTC