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this year's nominees represent five

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innovations which are producing

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measurable results that truly change the

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way people work and live

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please congratulate the 2006 accenture

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economic development award laureates

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the tech museum of innovation in san

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jose california held their annual tech

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awards ceremony in november of 2006.

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honorees included recipients such as

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bill gates

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a nasa technology partnership called the

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global connection project

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received a prestigious tech award at the

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event

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the tech museum award is an award that's

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given each year for technology that

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benefits humanity

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and global connection is receiving this

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because of the work we did in the

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aftermath of hurricanes katrina rita and

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the pakistan earthquake so using google

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earth and the overlays that we generated

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from noaa aerial photography and from

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digital globe satellite photography

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rescuers were able to zoom in and look

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at

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disasters so in the case of hurricane

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katrina you could actually zoom in

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and take a look at

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houses that were partly underwater or

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where the levees had broken

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the inspiration for global connection

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came from when we first saw these

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beautiful panoramic images taken by the

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mars exploration rover these images were

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so wonderfully detailed that they

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allowed us to fly through and explore

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mars and we said to ourselves hey maybe

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we can do the same sort of thing here on

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earth maybe we can create hardware and

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software to allow anybody to remotely

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explore the earth

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the inspiration here was trying to find

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a way of connecting

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stories and really great imagery from

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national geographic with google being

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able to place these wonderful stories

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these high-resolution aerial images into

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google earth so people can understand

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better what national geographic has done

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a new layer has been created on google

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earth and when you activate that layer

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by switching it on and you zoom down you

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have these nice yellow rectangles with

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the national geographic logo popping up

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when someone clicks on one of the

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bubbles people could go straight to

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national geographic's website by

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following different links and study it

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in detail

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people will learn a lot more about

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region

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and will be able to take that experience

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with them in a more profound way

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what we'd like to do now is place even

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higher resolution content into google

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earth and gigapan is the way we're doing

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that gigapan gives us the ability to

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take gigapixel

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images so panoramas with more than a

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billion pixels to allow people to really

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fly through and explore and learn about

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the remote world simply using images

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that we've captured with a consumer

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digital camera

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you just set up the two corners of your

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panorama and press go and

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the device does everything for you so

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taking a 400 picture stitched panorama

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is as easy as taking two pictures with

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this device

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part of what we

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use in gigapan is a software tool called

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the nasa vision workbench and we use

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this for creating high resolution

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gigapixel panoramas stitching together

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hundreds of images into a single

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explorable panorama

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we're going to be doing a lot of

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panorama hosting and streaming and we

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like to create ways for people to

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exchange their panoramas we hope by

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creating this content by having this one

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repository where people can really

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put their panoramas that will create a

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means for people to explore other

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people's lives and other people's

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existences go to places they've never

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been before go to places they may never

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be able to go to

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working with these different

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organizations has been a wonderful

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experience for us it's given us the

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ability to to interact with people

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national geographic conservationists

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that are going out trying to enlighten

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people about things that exist in africa

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working with carnegie mellon has allowed

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us to bring in students get them excited

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about the world around us get them

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excited about science and engineering

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working with google has been fabulous

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because we're able to work with an

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organization that's changing

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fundamentally the way we view

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information and think about the world

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around us the global connection project

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is currently working to develop images

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3d models and other content of earth

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moon and mars

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other developments include a website

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resource for gigapan users

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the new website is ready for users to