From ICCP11 Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute April 9, 2011 Abstract: The ability to inexpensively capture, search, annotate and share gigapixel panoramic image data is changing how science can perform field work, how temporal processes are analyzed and how scientists can communicate their mission to public audiences. In this talk I will describe a four-year experiment in direct science community empowerment using the gigapan imaging system to enable new forms of documentation and analysis. Very new work in microgigapan image creation and gigapixel timelapse capture and exploration promise entirely new ways of capturing and describing physical processes. I will demonstrate the newest real-time gigapixel timelapse view and will describe several science applications of gigapixel imagery that are presently generating strong community interest. Bio: Illah R. Nourbakhsh is an Associate Professor of Robotics and head of the Robotics Masters Program in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was on leave for the 2004 calendar year and was at NASA/Ames Research Center serving as Robotics Group lead. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1996. He is co-founder of the Toy Robots Initiative at The Robotics Institute, director of the Center for Innovative Robotics and director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) lab. He is also co-PI of the Global Connection Project, home of <b>...</b>