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“There’s no denying that some of the coolest research and projects going on happens right on your campuses by you and your professors … One of my favorite projects going on here at Microsoft’s Live Labs is PhotoSynth … It turns out this project originated at the University of Washington by a graduate student there, Noah, the ‘PhotoSynth Mastermind.’ He joined us in MSR’s fancy new building 99 to talk about how it all works,… Read more →
“Microsoft unveils fruits of online shake-up”
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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… Read more →
“Microsoft launches 3D photo program”
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“Available at photosynth.com, the program is a combination of technologies from Microsoft Research, the University of Washington and Seadragon Software, a Seattle-based startup that Microsoft acquired in 2006. Up until now, it has been a technology preview. Everyday users could view custom synths of photos created by Microsoft and selected others, but they couldn’t create collections of their own.”… Read more →
“Microsoft launches free Photosynth for combining shots into one picture”
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“Photosynth is a distinctly Seattle innovation. It makes use of technology for smoothly streaming large digital images, developed by Seadragon Software, a Ballard startup Microsoft acquired. The system for arranging photo collections in their three-dimensional context was developed by University of Washington computer scientists.”… Read more →
UW CSE friends and family among 2008 TR 35 (Technology Review)
Each year since 1999, Technology Review has honored 35 young innovators under the age of 35 — the TR 35. The 2008 TR 35 includes:
Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft Live Labs, recognized for creating Photosynth by combining work from his startup Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft) with work by UW CSE professor Steve Seitz, UW CSE graduate student Noah Snavely, and Microsoft Research computer vision researcher Rick Szeliski.
Tanzeem Choudhury from Dartmouth, an Affilate faculty member in UW CSE,… Read more →
“UW helped nurture computing ideas, Gates says” (Seattle Times)
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“As teenagers, Paul Allen and Bill Gates wandered the University of Washington campus, trying to pilfer free computer time. They let their minds wander to a future when computing power would essentially be free.
“Gates, in the final stop of his last university-speaking circuit as a full-time Microsoft employee, told students and faculty at the UW on Friday about what they imagined then and how much of what they dreamed of is becoming reality …… Read more →
“‘CSI’ sleuths out Microsoft’s latest technology”
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Photosynth, a collaboration between UW CSE’s computer graphics group and Microsoft, has been featured in an episode of CBS’s hit crime drama CSI: NY.
This is a significant move uptown from the graphics group’s other recent television exposure: visualization of “drafting” as part of NASCAR coverage.
Seattle Times article here
Seattle PI article here
Washington Times here
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Technology Review on Photosynth
“Photosynth was born from … the marriage of Seadragon and Photo Tourism, a Microsoft project intended to revolutionize the way photo sets are packaged and displayed. Photo Tourism had begun as the doctoral thesis of a zealous 26-year-old University of Washington graduate student named Noah Snavely. One of Snavely’s advisors was Rick Szeliski, a computer-vision researcher at Microsoft Research, the company’s R&D arm … Working with Szeliski and a University of Washington professor named Steve Seitz, Snavely was intent on… Read more →