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Digital photography up to now has mostly just replaced the traditional film with a silicon sensor, without substantial changes to the interface or the capabilities of a still camera.  However, as available computational power to cameras, cell phones, and other mobile systems continues to increase, computation can now be coupled much more tightly with the act of photography. Computational photography is a new area of computer graphics and vision, seeking to create new types of photographs and to allow photographers to capture images they never could before. This involves research both into new software algorithms for fusing data from multiple images, video streams, or other types sensors; into new hardware architectures to capture the data needed for the software; and into new types of user interfaces that allow simple control over the expanded capabilities we hope to discover.