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“The technology, developed by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, identifies patterns in pictures, then matches these with related photos to produce overlapping montages that users can then navigate in a browser.”
Articles that fail to credit UW appeared in the New York Times (“Photosynth is brought to you by a 15-person team at Microsoft Research …”), the Wall Street Journal (“Microsoft is a little like the General Motors of technology … Photosynth, based on technology Microsoft acquired …”).