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For anyone interested in finding out information about the developer of Picasa, Michael Herf, you can find some interesting info at the following links:
http://www.stereopsis.com/resume.html
http://www.picasa.com/about/about-team.php
Michael Herf was a software engineer for MetaCreations when I met him in 1998. I don’t know his expertise as a photographer, but his products and writings indicate he has an incredibly deep knowledge of the aesthetics as well as the physics of photography, i.e.:
http://www.stereopsis.com/scat/index.html
http://www.stereopsis.com/fresnel/
http://www.stereopsis.com/thumbpage/
http://www.stereopsis.com/images/shadow.jpg
Here’s a photo of him with the Kai’s Power Tools (KPT) 5 lead development team during a product launch party at the SFMOMA in 1999:
http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/metacreations/kpt_5_team.htm l
Pictured left to right are:
Todd Bogdan:
http://www.impossible.com/company/proteam_folder/pt_tbogdan. html
Moe Doucet:
http://www.planetmoe.com/tech.htm
Doucet built the sensor control system for the following Airborne Reconnaissance Low platform:
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/arl.htm
Ben Weiss (he lists "Picasa" as a client and/or partner):
http://www.shellandslate.com/
Kai Krause (namesake of KPT) with a link to the castle in Germany he purchased after selling his stock in MetaCreations:
http://www.byteburg.de/g/place/pictorial.html
Michael Herf:
http://www.herfconsulting.com/ca.html
Kai ("Lil Kai") Gradert:
http://www.cooperatingsystems.com/about/management-team/inde x.html#Kai%20Gradert
I’m not certain who the person at far right is, possibly (as listed in KPT 5 credits), Josh Bates.
http://www.stereopsis.com/resume.html
http://www.picasa.com/about/about-team.php
Michael Herf was a software engineer for MetaCreations when I met him in 1998. I don’t know his expertise as a photographer, but his products and writings indicate he has an incredibly deep knowledge of the aesthetics as well as the physics of photography, i.e.:
http://www.stereopsis.com/scat/index.html
http://www.stereopsis.com/fresnel/
http://www.stereopsis.com/thumbpage/
http://www.stereopsis.com/images/shadow.jpg
Here’s a photo of him with the Kai’s Power Tools (KPT) 5 lead development team during a product launch party at the SFMOMA in 1999:
http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/metacreations/kpt_5_team.htm l
Pictured left to right are:
Todd Bogdan:
http://www.impossible.com/company/proteam_folder/pt_tbogdan. html
Moe Doucet:
http://www.planetmoe.com/tech.htm
Doucet built the sensor control system for the following Airborne Reconnaissance Low platform:
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/arl.htm
Ben Weiss (he lists "Picasa" as a client and/or partner):
http://www.shellandslate.com/
Kai Krause (namesake of KPT) with a link to the castle in Germany he purchased after selling his stock in MetaCreations:
http://www.byteburg.de/g/place/pictorial.html
Michael Herf:
http://www.herfconsulting.com/ca.html
Kai ("Lil Kai") Gradert:
http://www.cooperatingsystems.com/about/management-team/inde x.html#Kai%20Gradert
I’m not certain who the person at far right is, possibly (as listed in KPT 5 credits), Josh Bates.
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