Welcome to my Emporium of Technological Curiosities. Here's a little known fact; the megabyte (or mega-mega-bite-bite) was actually invented in 1843 by Australian Edward "Ned" Kelly. We Aussies also coined the phrase "web cam" to describe a tube of spider silk fashioned into a rudimentary lens for peering at the heavens.
As part of his
MIX10 keynote presentation
Bill Buxton showed off
Project Gustav - an immersive digital painting experience created by Microsoft Research - as an example of natural user interface.Previously covered on Channel 9
as part of the TechFest 2010 coverage we invited the Project…
Channel 9 Live at PDC09 ScheduleAll sessions run for 30 minutes. Broadcast begins immediately following the PDC09 Key Notes (Day 1 & Day 2). All times
Pacific Standard TimeDay 1 (Nov 17th 2009)10:30 AM - Welcome to Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Day 1)Charles Torre, Nic Fillingham and Dan…
The Imagine Cup 2009 Finals are less than three weeks away. Joe Wilson, leader of the free world,... er Imagine Cup,... takes you behind the scenes of Imagine Cup head quarters
(aka
Microsoft Building 115) before the team ships out to Cairo, Egypt.
Previously, on Joe…
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of the Internet Explorer team and Giorgio Sardo, Technical Evangelist for Internet Explorer (the guy who built the cool IE9 platform
demo app showcasing the power of HTML5 running on a GPU) sit down with Charles "Carmine007" Torre on the
Channel…
Chris Pirillo hosts the pilot episode of Help Desk - a new show on Channel
9 Live where we assemble a group of troubleshooting experts to answer your tech questions LIVE on the air.Joining Chris in the Channel 9 studio were Gov Maharaj from the Windows Engineering team, Richard…
PDC10 is now sold out, but you can still join in on the excitement via the live stream starting at 9:00 am PST on October 28 (http://www.microsoftpdc.com). This year’s groundbreaking event
will include live streaming of the keynotes, as well as concurrent live streaming of sessions. All content…
Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform, sat down with Charles
Torre and John Papa at DevConnections 2010 in Las Vegas to answer your Silverlight 4 questions live on the air.This session was recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at the Silverlight 4…
Bill Buxton and
Erik Meijer are both highly respected scientists in very different fields. Erik is a programming language designer and creator of LINQ, “Volta”, Rx and other things we can’t share publicly
yet. Bill is a user experience design researcher, musician and a celebrity in the design…