WALKER READING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Randall Walker, MD
Randall Walker, MD,
is a practicing physician,
clinical investigator,
and educator
at a College
of Medicine
in
Rochester, Minnesota.
In the mid-1990s,
he became aware
of subtle visual problems
in
young people (and himself)
that impaired
their
reading performance,
especially from computer
displays.
Having minored
in modern language
as an undergraduate
at Notre Dame,
Randall
collaborated
with his brother Stan,
an ophthalmologist,
to improve
text readability
with a new text formatting method,
called Live InkŪ.
Stan Walker, MD
Randall and Stan
designed
Live Ink
to promote
the
dynamic perception
of word
groups
in
a sentence,
and
to augment
comprehension
with multidimensional
syntactic cueing
patterns.
Phil Schloss, BSEE
Randall
then collaborated
with Phil Schloss, BSEE,
an expert
in natural language software
and a
former
advisory software architect
at
IBM,
where,
during
a distinguished 30 year career,
he
had patented 14 inventions
of
his own.
Randall and Phil
developed
and
encoded
software-executable algorithms
that
perform
the Live InkŪ
formatting
method automatically.
The team
then collaborated
with cognitive
and
education scientists
at two leading universities
to
validate Live Ink,
and received Phase I
and Phase II Innovation Research Awards
from the US Department
of
Education.
The globally-patented Live InkŪ method
is now featured
in upper-elementary,
secondary,
and
college level online textbooks,
and received
the
2005 Distinguished Achievement Award
from the Association
of
Educational Publishers.