“Alex McDowell and a group of students associated with the World Building Media Lab, in partnership with Intel Labs, dazzled a generally jaded audience at the annual Consumer Electronics Show last week with a flying whale that seemingly swooped out of the screen into real space to float gracefully over the heads of 5,000 people. Titled The Leviathan Project, the experience was presented by Intel during the company’s pre-conference keynote, and represented a major achievement in having a student-oriented project featured at such a high profile international event.”