419 Boylston

419 is a residence and collaborative project space in the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill. Its members have been both artists, computational scientists, and entrepreneurs. Notables include Stanford Professor of Computer Science Dr. Jeffrey Heer, MIT hacker Star Simpson, researcher and the computational artist Brian Colwell, who no longer reside there.
419 projects expressly combine the three fields of Art, Computer Science, and Entrepreneurship. For instance, the friendbo Internet startup began at 419, with the company mission to further artistic and social communication via new computational access control mechanisms on the Internet. Inside knowledge of the residence is embedded in many friendbo security questions. Ex-resident Dr. Jeffrey Heer ran psychological experiments on Information Visualization while at 419 and interning at Microsoft Research, and discovered principles of how artistic animations affect the perception of computational data.
Recent works include businesses based on Amazon Mechanical Turk, such as one that leverages anonymous Internet workers for high-speed proofreading, a film that received the [http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/11/19/the-2010-hump-awards Best In Show at HUMP! 2010] and privately-shown music and art productions produced using the k-sketch animation tool that Colwell contributed to while at 419.

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