He works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.)
Great to hear something about Org-mode. Development seems to have stalled for a while. I am desperately waiting for an iPad-compatible version of the companion mobile app. Org-mode is such a great tool, that I am not willing to switch to another solution, just because of the lack of an iPad app.
Org-mode is awesome, admittedly, it takes (just like anything Emacs related) a lot of up-front configuration and tweaking efforts but is well worth it.
Actually, as far as emacs things goes, org mode is one of the few that works out of the box. My 500-line .emacs has no configurations in it whatsoever for org mode.
True, it does work out of the box, but my workflow requires a lot of customizations - my org-mode customizations line count comes in a 162 lines...
My .emacs got so big I had to split it up into init files:
- programming mode customizations
- productivity mode customizations
- appearance customizations
- behavioral customizations
- keymapping customizations
- gnus customizations (too big for productivity init)
- standard requires that I use too often to autoload
- templating and yasnippet routines
I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is available?"
Who is this man and what is his setup?
UPDATE:
His name is T.V. Raman and apparently he uses something called Emacspeak.
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html
Anyone else have more info?