10.10am the show is over after a glance a all this new technology and hope to see more in the years to come.
10.08am a mini surface can be enabled by using an infrared camera enabling interaction with a mobile surface by using the same infrastructure of the surface and just refracting light to approach the gesture and context.
10.05am the way it works is that it transparent the 1st surface by applying a voltage letting the light pass thru to a second diffuse surface, at a rate that makes it invisible to the naked eye and providing the effect of 2 displays.
10.01am Demo. Wow! so there is a second light projection going on that behaves similar to a magnification glass in top of the surface, really really cool!
10.00am Steve Hodges is on stage and introduces SecondLight, interaction beyond the Surface.
9.59am Rick is back on stage on showing a video of a prototype for Surface using a projector on a table.
9.56am now showing a video of things that could be possible with Boku. really cool and complex stuff made simple. I ain’t no kid but me kid inside is craving to play with it.
9.51am Boku is a functional, rule based system that let kids associated actions to intuition. – it kind of takes me back to me time in CS101 learning Scheme *cool*
9.49am Demo time. How to use Boku to write a hello world, using an Xbox Control.
9.47am Boku is a lightweight programming for kids by means of building games.
9.45am Rick is talking about his 9 year old kid programming C# programs using generics, WPF and console programming and introduces Mat MacLaurin to talk about Boku.
9.39am World Wide Telescope has over 1.5 million active users and as now there is a new release called Equinox with a set of data that doubles the initial set of images available in the previous release.
9.36am Education is another big center for collaboration with the Academy in robotics, children learning mechanisms and use of technology in educational communities.
9.30am Rick is back on stage and is introducing the use of Machine Learning Theories on the investigation of vaccines by mean of simulation and data analysis based on large data sets.
9.19am showing the use of sensors in building energy efficient solutions.
9.10am Feng Zhao now is introduced to talk about sensors in our environment. *for those in PDC, check out the Windows 7 booth for your sensor card, so you can build your own prototypes*
8.59am Research pushes the process into one that is agile and can come into rescue when things go not as expected.
8.57am Research is a source of IP and new product technologies generating over 25% of the company’s patents, generally categorized as more “fundamentals”.
8.52am DirectX, Windows Media and the Tablet PC are examples of products who made it out of the Research Division.
8.48am as of today there are more than 800 PhD researchers making it one of the biggest faculty facilities in the world. 4000 papers published in the last 17 years with facilities in over 4 countries including India, China, England and the US.
8.47am MSR uses a University Org model and behaves as one. Focusing on Open Research with Strong ties to University Research.
8.45am Code that was written by Rick back in Carnegie Mellon is still running on Mac OS X and the iPhone; inspiring on the basic focus of expanding the state of the art in the field of technology by Research.
8.42am 1990 a Memo was written to BillG and the board of directors to open a basic research laboratory, when the company was still a small company.
8.39am Rick Rashid takes the stage and introduces what Research is in the 21st Century.
8.38am One of the things MSR provides Microsoft is that it allow them to “see into the future”. Focusing on problems that they could only dream.
8.33am Lights are out and a video introducing Microsoft Research. Really inspiring video on what the goals and the tasks at hand on going in this Division of the Company.
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Day 3 is out, it’s Wednesday, October 29th 2008 and the time comes for Microsoft Research to make its appearance in the stage.
Here is the live blogging.
