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  • Cursive named as Dingman Pitch Alumni Track Quarterfinalist

    We’re proud to announce that Cursive Technology, Inc. was named as a quarterfinalist for the University of Maryland Dingman Pitch Competition in the Alumni Track. This was a great opportunity to showcase our product, pitch, and progress. 100 plus companies submitted applications for this UMD-focused entrepreneurship event to compete for over $170k in prizes. More… Read more

  • Word Choice in the AI-Age

    There have been some interesting articles on words used in AI writing. As I read those lists I was thinking about how this could impact me as a student or writer generally knowing that these have been called out for making me sound like an AI (I certainly don’t feel like an AI).  Two recent… Read more

  • What do students say about Writing in Cursive? 

    Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST Last year, when I was just beginning to think about authorship verification, I was a student at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. As a student, a few things were clear:  While designing a new tool for authorship, understanding the student perspective has always… Read more

  • Why we chose Moodle as our first Integration

    Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST I’ve been using the Moodle Learning Management System (Moodle LMS) since 2007 when I started learning the ins and outs of site administration, course development, and extending the already powerful LMS with additional community and commercial plugins. Over the last decade and a half I’ve worked… Read more

  • 3 Key Features that Set Cursive Apart

    Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST Academic integrity tools for plagiarism detection offer various features to teachers and students using their products.  I’ve tried, demoed, and used dozens of plagiarism detection tools over the last 15 years, administering a large-scale online English Composition course. From this review, I think that the main… Read more

  • An Ode to the Keyboard

    Rethinking Authorship in the AI-era The Keyboard Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST The qwerty keyboard has been around since 1866, invented to uniformly and efficiently share information and data; it became the device of choice for interacting with computers once punch cards went out of vogue in the 1960s. Its connection… Read more