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In honor of Earth day today, we're putting this video back up on the home page as it's a great eco-friendly concept and it's programmable!

What if you could build a microchip that was power efficient enough to run a small Web server and host Web services that enabled it to monitor or change...

The goal of this Techfest project is to help revitalize chipset architecture research by enabling academia to build new chip architectures without the expense of fabricating custom chips.

In this video, you'll see demos of some unique ways to alter the search experience including

- Collaborative Search - searching and annotating with multiple people
- Co-Search - multiple people using the same computer with multiple mice and mobile phones for input devices
- Search Bar - Enables...

Privacy Integrated Queries is a system that enables you to use any LINQ-enabled provider to query and analyze sensitive data (medical data, search logs, financial data) without revealing sensitive information. Watch the video to see a demo of it in action using MSN Search logs

With Techfest just a couple of days away, I caught up with Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft research and ask him about the history of MSR, some interesting projects coming out at Techfest later this week including projects like contextual search and Worldwide Telescope, and...

On this week's episode, Brian and Dan talk about
- GDC and GDC Impressions
- Michael Klucher clip where he talks about VS tool support for building Zune games
- Heroes Happen Here Launch Event
- Aaron Marten clip showing VSX extensibility to build a custom tool window
- Christian Kleinerman...

If you work with SQL Server on a regular basis, either writing custom queries, designing databases, or optimizing queries, this is a must see video as it covers a number of the enhancements to SQL Server 2008 including:

- SQL Management Studio improvements including IntelliSense
- New Data Types...

Ken and Aaron talk about the new features for extensibility in Visual Studio 2008 and the Visual Studio 2008 SDK including touching on key topics like:


- How you can build your own IDE with the Visual Studio Shell
- How you could create your own language service using Babel
- How to plug...

I catch up with Anthony Cangialosi and Ken Levy from the Visual Studio Extensibility team to talk about the newly launched site for finding Visual Studio extensions, www.visualstudiogallery.com. 

You'll also see Ken walk through using two cool, free extensions that you can download...

"Special" guest host Ed Kaim is in the studio as Dan is down covering GDC.

This week's episode includes

- Microsoft announces DreamSpark - Free software for students
- Max Zuckerman interviews Bill Gates on what he would do if he was 17 again.
- XNA announces Community Arcade...