Cliff Kushler is an inventor and entrepreneur who co-founded Tegic, the company that created T9 predictive input software used on mobile devices, and Swype, a technology for using swiping motions to type words on touch-screen keyboards.
Before founding Swype, Dr. Kushler was the VP of R&D at Tegic Communications/AOL Wireless.
Tegic, which was also co-founded by Dr. Kushler, developed a very successful text input method for cell phones called "T9" (later commonly referred to as "predictive texting") and was acquired by America On-line in 1999.
T9 is now licensed on hundreds of millions of cell phones each year.
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