Oren Boiman was a Ph.D. student working with artificial intelligence and researching the science of video vision when entrepreneurial inspiration struck. It was while editing together all of the videos he and his wife had taken of their newly born child that he realized it had taken him two weeks to create a three-minute film. He knew it could be easier. From this experience an idea was born that would change how millions of people told their personal stories with video and photos. Magisto was founded in 2009, driven by the desire to help people turn their ordinary video and photo memories into storytelling magic. Together with his co-founder, Alex Rav-Acha, Oren used his background in AI and computer science to develop the cloud-based mobile technology that enables Magisto to automatically select the most compelling moments from videos and photos and weave them together into cohesive personal narratives. Oren, whose background includes research lead for Applied Materials, has a Ph.D. in computer vision from the Weizmann Institute of Science and earned an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science from Tel Aviv University.
Gods in Boxes: Vivienne Ming
Gods in Boxes: Almighty Algorithms and Hidden Values Much of what we see and learn is determined by increasingly complex algorithms. From news to auto emissions, from pricing to scheduling, tech largely indistinguishable from magic is selecting, editing, and organizing more and more of our daily lives. How do we ensure the values and beliefs […]
180° Shift: What Will We Remember?
Boiman: My name is Oren Boiman. I’m the CEO and co-founder of Magisto. These days our brains are constantly bombarded by messages, images, moving pictures. We have so little time to immerse in an experience before the next thing comes and grabs our attention. We’re frantically trying to cling to the moment and we call […]
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
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Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
