Even more challenging, it would have had to create an interface that included all those different possibilities.

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Take a few million dollars out of the budget reserved for establishing plasma size bragging rights or DVD format wars and hire a few programmers that know how to create an interface.

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Together, those elements create an intuitive interface that interprets the entire concept of digital or web microscopy.

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Chatter, 40, now works on patching his device into Lucent's optical interface to create an optical on-ramp.

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The architecture also provides an application programming interface (API) that developers can use to create enhanced imaging apps for the growing Android mobile customer base.

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Its simple interface has to date allowed people to create and share over 72, 000 visualizations ranging from the an analysis of the budget for the city of Moscow to tag clouds of the most common word in lyrics by the Beatles.

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