Peter Halacsy is the co-founder and Head of Product for Prezi

Prezi

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas upon a virtual canvas. Prezi is distinguished by its Zooming User Interface , which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media...

, a cloud-based presentation software company based in San Francisco. Peter is a computer scientist

Computer scientist

A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

 who previously served as Assistant Professor of New Media at the Budapest University of Technology .

In 2007, he co-founded "Kitchen Budapest" , a media lab for researchers interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.

Founding of Prezi

In 2007, Budapest University of Technology professor Peter convinced architect and visual artist Adam Somlai-Fischer

Adam Somlai-Fischer

Adam Somlai-Fischer born 1976 in Budapest is an architect and interaction designer interested in the cultural qualities of new technologies. He creates installations and experiments that blend spaces, technologies and interactivity...

 to turn his zooming user interface

Zooming User Interface

In computing, a zooming user interface or zoomable user interface is a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in order to see more detail or less, and browse through different documents. A ZUI is a type of graphical user interface...

(ZUI) enabled into a commercial editor, so that anyone could make zooming presentations.

Publications

Before co-founding Prezi his research interest included information retrieval and natural language processing.