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Orange County, California’s youngest elected official, Jeremy Yamaguchi, 19, was sworn in as city councilman for the City of Placentia on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008.

• Placentia Elects Teen to City Council (Video), KCAL9.com
• 40 Under 40, Jeremy Yamaguchi, OCMetro.com

President-elect Barack Obama wasn’t the only winner Nov. 4. Election night was also a defining moment for entrepreneur and NYU researcher Jefferson Y. Han, 32, and his advanced graphics firm, Perceptive Pixel.  Delivering the high-tech television election coverage for CNN, Fox and ABC. Han’s multitouch graphics technology, which allowed TV talking heads to come out from behind their desks to send dramatic graphical images of election data zooming across the screen to their viewers.
CNET spotlighted the Korean American Han and his Merlin-like magic touchscreens in a feature by Michelle Meyers, and you know you’ve made an impact of some kind when Saturday Night Live spoofs you. This is not the first time Han has surfaced on the collective consciousness. He helped to develop the seminal video conferencing software CU-SeeMe while a grad student at Cornell and was named to Time Magazine’s 2008 listing of the 100 Most Influential People in The World.

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• Election a win for multitouch inventor/SNL Spoof/CNET/Michelle Meyers, 11.03.08
• Perceptive Pixel Website (relevant linkage)
• Jeff Han—NYU Dept. of Computer Science