Berkeley Invents Chronozoom - Saekow

Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, Roland Saekow, ChronoZoom - a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features -- is coming to life. UC Berkeley geology professor Walter Alvarez and his students have teamed up with Microsoft Research Connections engineers to make this web-based
software possible. ChronoZoom is being designed to help visualize history and to assist researchers in viewing large amounts of data to find new historical connections.

A beta version of ChronoZoom was released today (Wednesday, March 1, 2012) by Outercurve Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports open-source software.

The idea arose in a UC Berkeley course about Big History taught by Alvarez, who first proposed that a comet or asteroid smashed into the Earth 65 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs. Big History is a unified, interdisciplinary way of looking at and teaching the history of the cosmos, Earth, life and humanity: the history of everything.
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[THEBOLSHEVIK]

Hey Roland, if you're reading this, this is Andrew from your Big History class (the comic guy). I totally remember being impressed with the scope of your project back when we were actually students, and I'm even more impressed that you were able to stick with it for three years and make it something truly amazing. It's really inspiring, and a true example of the kinds of great work we can achieve when we stick to a good idea. Keep up the great work and congrats on the well-deserved accolades!

[700]

i have lots of ideas (and some samples working for me only) about software to make people smarter, but no one is interested...

[RavnoUK]

so... he invented the old Encarta? ... duh?

[Diogo Mestre]

buy a mac.

[Peter Chapman]

surely they should join with someone like wikipedia where a lot of these events are already stored as digital data and can be crosslinked through tagged keywords?

[jimday666]

very nice project!!

[shithappensfuckthat]

cool story bro

[epgomez]

if gravity is still theory bec it's still to be proven based on technicalities well give a another name to the obvious reality of force that keeps my feet attached to the ground. This reality is part of the rest of reality known and recorded by men. 

[mbroderick]

We sure wouldn't want the "theory" of gravity fused with reality, now would we?