SPE, initially developed in 2003 and launched officially on October 2, 2007, is a Story Picturing Engine that takes a story entered/uploaded by the user and returns a picture storyboard that visualizes the story with a series of pictures. It acts as a gateway to image searching, which can be done through alipr.com, a search engine that finds images based on a comprehensive database of images with computer-based and human-based tagging. SPE can be used for educational purposes, such as locating p ...