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Microsoft has created an interactive billion pixel image of its Seattle base – and hidden a few surprises in there.
Microsoft teamed up with over 100 of Seattle’s creative best to insert them all into this massive panoramic of the city’s epic skyline.
The Seattle Gigapixel Art Zoom project pushes the boundaries of the Image Composite Editor technology to deliver an image that enables anyone to pan and zoom through the city of Seattle at an amazing level…
We’ve seen a lot of impressive gigapixel cityscapes but there’s something a little extra special about this one… Microsoft teamed up with over 100 of Seattle’s creative best to insert them all into this massive…
Multi-gigapixel panoramas are rad. It’s like peeping at the world through a telescope from the comfort of your own ground-floor living room. But Microsoft has made the concept even more fun with its 20 Gigapixel…
‘The mission of Microsoft Research is to extend the state of the art, and technologists really benefit from seeing the world through artists’ eyes,’ he (Michael Cohen) says. ‘It challenges us to build better tools…
Gigapixel ArtZoom will allow you to swoop and zoom through the streets, parks, and bays of Seattle, on the prowl for a colorful cast of more than 100 eccentric characters who make up the city’s…
In 2011, Babak Parviz and Brian Otis were still at the University of Washington and published a case study (PDF) with Microsoft Research on how they built a prototype lens that can monitor blood glucose…
Lauter named the next president of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
Kristin Lauter’s love for mathematics has enabled her to take the next significant step in her professional career, as the next president of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Lauter manages the Cryptography group at…
