{"id":397,"date":"2017-07-21T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofchristmedia.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/iranian-professor-helps-pioneer-google-earth-and-street-view\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T19:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:27:23","slug":"iranian-professor-helps-pioneer-google-earth-and-street-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofchristmedia.org\/index.php\/impact-news\/iranian-professor-helps-pioneer-google-earth-and-street-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian professor helps pioneer Google Earth and Street View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AvidehThe Mercury News<\/em> reports<\/a>: For one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most important inventions, we can thank Avideh Zakhor, creator of technology that helped bring us Google Earth and Street View.<\/p>\n

Before today\u2019s Google Earth and Street View could show us their stunningly detailed views of our world, there was Zakhor and her team driving a truck loaded with sensors around Berkeley and flying in a helicopter overhead to gather imagery, mapping part of the city in three dimensions.<\/p>\n

And then there was Zakhor, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science for nearly 30 years, turning her research into a Defense Department-funded startup. After the funding ended she sold the company to Google for a price she declined to reveal. Google built her innovations into Earth and Street View, used it to advance Google Maps and is pushing it forward into a future in which cars drive themselves. Read more in The Mercury News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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