Alyssa Goodman edited The Universe Project.md  almost 10 years ago

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Jonathan Fay, an extraordinary software architect and amateur astronomer himself had done work on 3D graphics, tiled multi resolution image rendering and media authoring, built the first zooming prototype of the Sloan imagery within a few hours. Over the course of two years the project was completed with Curtis designing the experience and Jonathan developing technical architecture and code, and assistance from others to handle the myriad of tasks managing the imagery, testing, hosting, site development and deployment.   WorldWide Telescope had its first preview at the 2008 TED Conference as introduced by Roy Gould, science education expert at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.   Good source of info: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/research/stories/worldwide-telescope.aspx