2009 Legacy: Movies
Up by Pixar premieres, making audiences cry within the first ten minutes and winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Part of the 59 Fun Facts:… Read More »2009 Legacy: Movies
2009
2009 Archive: The Official Launch of ImageNet
Fei-Fei Li and her team officially present the ImageNet database at the CVPR conference. With 12 million labeled images, it becomes the „accelerator” that allowed… Read More »2009 Archive: The Official Launch of ImageNet
2009 File: Michael Jackson’s Death and Social Media
The scale of traffic on Twitter and Google that day forces giants to rebuild trend analysis algorithms to react to global events in seconds rather… Read More »2009 File: Michael Jackson’s Death and Social Media
2009 File: The Kanye West & Taylor Swift VMA Incident
Kanye interrupts Taylor’s acceptance speech, sparking one of the most famous feuds in pop culture history. Part of the 59 Fun Facts: The 2009 Avatar… Read More »2009 File: The Kanye West & Taylor Swift VMA Incident
2009 File: Literature
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown sells over one million copies on its first day of release. Part of the 59 Fun Facts: The 2009 Avatar… Read More »2009 File: Literature
2009 Legacy: Google Begins Self-Driving Car Project
Google secretly launches its autonomous vehicle project (later known as Waymo), hiring winners of the DARPA Grand Challenge. It signals that AI behind the wheel… Read More »2009 Legacy: Google Begins Self-Driving Car Project
2009 Legacy: The First Commercial LED TVs
Mass adoption of LED screens allows for „local dimming” algorithms that dynamically analyze every frame to improve contrast—AI taking care of our visual experience. Part… Read More »2009 Legacy: The First Commercial LED TVs