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2023
Bad Apple!!
During the r/place event, Reddit users from the Touhou, osu!, and Hatsune Miku communities (with assistance from other subreddits) collaborated to re-animate 'Bad Apple!!', a process that took nearly 72 hours to complete.
May 2022
Phase stretch transform
PST was incorporated into PhyCV, the first physics-inspired computer vision library, after significant code refactoring to support GPU acceleration.
May 21 2020
Bad Apple!!
Alstroemeria Records officially released the Anira animation as the official music video for 'Bad Apple!!'.
2019
Bad Apple!!
Stéphane Hockenhull programmed an Arduino Mega to render the 'Bad Apple!!' video at 128×176 resolution and 60 fps.
2018 The global market for medical imaging manufacturing devices was estimated at $5 billion.
2018
Data cube
ISO SQL database language was extended with data cube functionality through the standard 'SQL – Part 15: Multi-dimensional arrays (SQL/MDA)'.
2018
Caffe
Caffe reached its end-of-support status, marking the conclusion of its active development lifecycle.
March 2018
Caffe
Caffe2 was merged into PyTorch, marking the end of its independent development.
May 2017
Bad Apple!!
Alstroemeria Records began releasing a series of 10th Anniversary Bad Apple!! albums, consisting entirely of remixes and covers of their version of the song.
April 2017
Caffe
Facebook announced Caffe2, introducing new features including recurrent neural network (RNN) capabilities.
2016 The medical imaging manufacturing industry was characterized as oligopolistic and mature, with new market entrants Samsung and Neusoft Medical emerging.
February 9 2016
Phase stretch transform
UCLA Engineering research group publicly released the computer code for the Phase Stretch Transform (PST) algorithm, enabling high-speed image processing and advanced computer vision capabilities.
June 2014
Bad Apple!!
About two minutes of 'Bad Apple!!' were ported to the Commodore 64 as 2000 frames at 12 frames per second.
June 2014
Bad Apple!!
During the '8088 Domination' demo, the 'Bad Apple!!' shadow video was rendered on a 1981-era IBM 5150 at 640×200 resolution and 30 frames per second. Around the same time, about two minutes of the video were ported to the Commodore 64.
December 2013
Caffe
The library was officially renamed to Caffe and released to the public.
March 2013
Caffe
Yangqing Jia first introduced 'DeCAF', an early version of the Caffe deep learning framework, during the ILSVRC (ImageNet) challenge in spring.

This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Bad Apple!!, Caffe (software), Medical imaging, Principal geodesic analysis, Phase stretch transform, Data cube, Shape analysis (digital geometry) & Conservative morphological anti-aliasing, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.