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Sep Kamvar,
Stanford University
www.wefeelfine.org
Sep Kamvar is a computer scientist, artist, and entrepreneur. At the see conference he presented his web-based art works We Feel Fine and Lovelines, both collaborations with Jonathan Harris. Both of these pieces use material found in blogs to visualize human emotions and desires. Kamvar is a Consulting Professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University and the technical lead of personalization at Google. His current interests lie in search, data mining, and street art. He founded Kaltix, a search engine that was acquired by Google in 2003, and Distilled, a clothing line and artist collective based out of San Francisco.