Photosynth Visualization System

Published by Eric Litman on Monday, June 11th, 2007 7:14pm

This is a very sexy demo of a few really interesting technologies for viewing and understanding large - really large - sets of visual data. Photosynth, the application behind the demo, was developed by Seadragon and purchased by Microsoft about a year ago, and is now available as a demo on the Microsoft Labs site. They're combining computer vision with spatial awareness and analysis to stitch together photos from virtually any source - high resolution digital SLR, camera phone, satellite, municipal camera, etc. - and allow ...

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Interview at D

Published by Eric Litman on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 11:59am

The nostalgia is heady as these two guys sit side-by-side on stage in their first joint interview in over a decade. Time and experience have visibly mellowed the both of them. This is the second event in recent months - the first being the iPhone introduction - where Steve has gone out of his way to be magnanimous about the people within Apple, which I suspect is both an artifact of recent experiences and setting the stage for succession. If you have the time, the full interview is well worth watching.