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Neat to see the graphical presentation of flight options (page 38) that would presumably evolve into Hipmunk seven years later.
by wgrover 12y ago
Neat to see the graphical presentation of flight options (page 38) that would presumably evolve into Hipmunk seven years later.
- maxerickson 12y agoThat sort of graphing of time intervals goes back at least to the Gantt chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart Maybe Hipmunk saw the one in the presentation, but it wouldn't be surprising if they had not.
- puls 12y agoThe website they built is called ITA Matrix (http://matrix.itasoftware.com http://matrix.itasoftware.com) and it's still available today even after Google acquired them. It's the most powerful flight search engine out there.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoAnd it's written in Lisp!