Gary Flake - Director, Live Labs demos Pivot at TED

Sometimes back Blaise Aguera amazed the audience at TED with his Bing Maps’ Augmented-reality demo , Bill Gates with his talk on Energy Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! . Now Gary Flakes- a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, and the founder and director of Live Labs  demos Pivot , a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.

Watch this Pivot demo at TED, how data can be used in powerful way.

 

TED Video: Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.