Blaise Agüera y Arcas
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| Blaise Agüera y Arcas | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 48–49)[1] Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.[1] |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Occupation | software architect, designer |
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas (born 1975)[1] is a software architect, designer, and imagery authority at Google. As of 2010, he was the architect of Bing Maps and Bing Mobile.[2] In 2011 he was named a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft.
Agüera y Arcas is a 1998 graduate of Princeton University where he received a B.A. in physics and was a roommate of Dennis Crouch.[3]
He founded Seadragon Software in 2003, which was acquired by Microsoft Live Labs in 2006. He has led later development of the Photosynth software suite.
In 2004 for the Library of Congress he devised a numerical method to create color composite images of almost two thousand negatives by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.[4]
In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[5]
In 2013, he left Microsoft to go join Google.[1]
References
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- ↑ An Interview with Blaise Aguera y Arcas. April 29, 2010.
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External links
- Reconstructing Prokudin-Gorskii's Color Photography in Software, 2004
- Newsweek profile, 2008
- TR35 profile, 2008
- @blaiseaguera Twitter account
- Style is Violence blog
- Library of Congress Name Authority File entry
- Virtual International Authority File entry
- Blaise Agüera y Arcas at TED
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