Blaise Aguera y Arcas Quotes

Mexico, Software Developer
1975

Blaise Agüera y Arcas (born 1975) is a software engineer, software architect, and designer. He is an authority in computer vision, machine intelligence, and computational photography and presents regularly at conferences. He appears regularly at TED and his presentations have been rated some of TED's "most jaw-dropping.

Also known as Engineer, Architect, Designer

This is taking photos from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Earth
- Memory
- Photos
With Photosynth, all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Sum
- Emergent
- Photosynth

My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas