Mapping the Journey: Mappedin’s Path from Student Idea to Global Platform
The shortest route may be a straight line, but for Waterloo-based Mappedin, the journey has taken a few twists and…
Srinivasan Keshav remembers with a shudder the early days of video-conferencing.

In the late 1980s, videos were grainy, the lighting terrible and cameras bulky and conspicuous. The whole experience was more of a hassle than a help, he says.
Keshav, a computer science professor at the University of Waterloo, recalls predicting that someone would soon upgrade the technology to something that was far better.