Software firm Autodesk is sponsoring some of the aspects of the research and Autodesk Research codesigned the demo app in collaboration with the Knight Lab and the Personal Genome Project.

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Dave Burke, engineering director, is now giving a demo of Project Butter, improvements in the OS that include triple buffering.

FORBES: Google Expected to Deliver A Tablet At Developer Fest (Live Blog)

Hiding in the back of the SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies demo area -- exactly where such a project might belong -- is a dark wood chair that looks anything but innocent.

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