JonUdell

With the new OpenSearch-based federation capability in Search Server 2008, you can integrate any external search service that can expose results as an RSS feed. In this podcast Jon Udell discusses search federation with Richard Riley and Keller Smith. Richard Riley is a Senior…

Kyril Faenov is the General Manager of the Windows HPC product unit. Before founding the HPC team in 2004, Kyril worked on a broad set of projects across Microsoft, including running the planning process for Windows Server 2008, co-founding a distributed systems project in the office…

In this podcast, Jon Udell invites Tandy Trower and Henrik Nielsen to explain why robotics is taking off, and how their new approach to the technology will generalize to a broad range of scenarios. JU: So you were just in Japan. What did you see and do? TT: We were at IREX, the…

Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft.  He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the  transition from print to electronic and web based content, and its implications for collaboration,…

In this podcast, MSR researcher Catharine van Ingen and Berkeley micrometeorologist Dennis Baldocchi talk with Jon Udell about their collaboration on www.fluxdata.org, a SharePoint portal to a scientific data server. The server contains carbon-dioxide flux data gathered from a worldwide network…

In this podcast, Jon Udell chats with Vittorio Bertocci, author of Understanding Windows CardSpace. The discussion traces the evolution of the identity metasystem, explores the rationale for CardSpace, and considers the unsolved problem of public online identity for individuals.  …

My guest for this week's Perspectives show is George Hripcsak, professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia and one of six researchers recently funded by Microsoft Research through its Computational Challenges of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) program.   George…

My guests for this week's Perspectives show are Barbara Willett and Nigel Snoad. Barbara works for Mercy Corps in Afghanistan, as the design, monitoring, and evaluation manager for a number of agricultural development programs. Nigel Snoad is a lead capabilities researcher for Microsoft…

I'm enjoying the new Office ribbon but I'm also a fan of clutter-free interfaces, so I wondered how to use the ribbon selectively. This short screencast illustrates two ways to do that. You can use Control-F1 to minimize the ribbon, and Control-F1 to restore it. There's also a subtler…

In this screencast, Rich Ciapala demonstrates Microsoft HPC++ CompFin Lab, which integrates Microsoft HPC Server, a central market data database, and Microsoft productivity products to provide university courses with an online service to publish, execute and  manage…