I think because Maneesh Agrawala, who created LineDrive, was at Microsoft after completing his PhD thesis (which was basically LineDrive). He's done huge amount

I think because Maneesh Agrawala, who created LineDrive, was at Microsoft after completing his PhD thesis (which was basically LineDrive). He's done huge amounts of really interesting work -- one of my absolute favourite CS researchers. He's worked on cropping videos using gaze tracking, making architectural models from photographs, usability analysis and design systems for isometric assembly instructions, text editing of talking head videos, and more. Most things he does have an element of magic to them. Current homepage: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh/ http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh/