419 Boylston
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419 is a residence and collaborative project space in the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill. Its members have been both artists, computational scientists, and entrepreneurs. Notables include Stanford Professor of Computer Science Dr. Jeffrey Heer, MIT hacker Star Simpson, researcher and the computational artist Brian Colwell, who no longer reside there.
419 projects expressly combine the three fields of Art, Computer Science, and Entrepreneurship. For instance, the friendbo Internet startup began at 419, with the company mission to further artistic and social communication via new computational access control mechanisms on the Internet. Inside knowledge of the residence is embedded in many friendbo security questions. Ex-resident Dr. Jeffrey Heer ran psychological experiments on Information Visualization
while at 419 and interning at Microsoft Research
, and discovered principles of how artistic animations affect the perception of computational data.
Recent works include businesses based on Amazon Mechanical Turk
, such as one that leverages anonymous Internet workers for high-speed proofreading, a film that received the Best In Show at HUMP! 2010 and privately-shown music and art productions produced using the k-sketch animation tool that Colwell contributed to while at 419.
419 projects expressly combine the three fields of Art, Computer Science, and Entrepreneurship. For instance, the friendbo Internet startup began at 419, with the company mission to further artistic and social communication via new computational access control mechanisms on the Internet. Inside knowledge of the residence is embedded in many friendbo security questions. Ex-resident Dr. Jeffrey Heer ran psychological experiments on Information Visualization
Information visualization
Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems, library and bibliographic databases, networks of relations on the internet, and so forth".- Overview...
while at 419 and interning at Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
, and discovered principles of how artistic animations affect the perception of computational data.
Recent works include businesses based on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk
The Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables computer programmers to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are unable to do yet. It is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services...
, such as one that leverages anonymous Internet workers for high-speed proofreading, a film that received the Best In Show at HUMP! 2010 and privately-shown music and art productions produced using the k-sketch animation tool that Colwell contributed to while at 419.