ChronoZoom
Alvarez's most recent contribution to the field of Big History has been the creation of a zoomable, interactive timeline in partnership with Microsoft Research called ChronoZoom. ChronoZoom is a computer-graphical approach to dealing with this problem of visualizing and understanding time scales, and presenting vast quantities of historical information in a useful way. ChronoZoom was introduced at the 97th Annual Faculty Research Lecture at UC Berkeley. Video recording of the talk.
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