While digitizing my analog videotapes, I came across a short 1989 demo by Bill Gaver of his SonicFinder™, an interesting piece of early work on audio in user interfaces. It's easy to find online copies of research papers describing The SonicFinder™, but I was surprised to find that the Internet doesn't seem to offer anything like the video demo I have. That's a shame, because hearing audio and seeing it in action is a lot more illuminating than reading about it.
With Bill's kind permission, here is a digitized copy of the videotape he gave me in 1989 (presumably when he came to give a talk at Brown University, where I was pursuing graduate work in Computer Science). It's short--not quite three minutes long. Enjoy!
