The Secret Behind a One Day Project Going Viral

Corom Thompson and Santosh Balasubramanian, Engineers in Information Management and Machine Learning at Microsoft were playing around with Microsoft's newly released Face Detection APIs through a web page called ://how-old.net. What happened then was magical. In their own words on their blog, Corom and Balasubramaniam, say We were expecting perhaps 50 users for a test, but - in the end - got over 35,000 users and saw the whole thing unfold in real time. When at least a hundred of my friends post...