It's been WAY too long since we've had Brian Beckman sharing knowledge, insights and perspectives on Channel 9. This changes now! Needless to say, I was incredibly happy to spend an hour with Brian learning all about what he's up to these days. Not surprisingly, he's writing code and employing…
In mathematics, computer science, and related subjects, an 'algorithm' is an effective method for solving a problem expressed as a finite sequence of instructions. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and many other fields. (In more advanced or abstract settings, the instructions do…
Welcome to another installment of C9 Lectures covering the powerful general C++ library, STL. Joining us once again is the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft's keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership between the owners of STL (dinkumware) and Microsoft, including, of…
Welcome to another installment of C9 Lectures covering the powerful general C++ library, STL. Joining us once again is the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft's keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership between the owners of STL (dinkumware) and Microsoft, including, of…
Yuri Gurevich is back on C9!! Yuri is a logician, computer scientist and inventor of abstract state machines. He currently works at Microsoft Research (he's a member of Wolfram Schulte's RiSE team). This is the second part in a series of lectures exploring the fundamental logic-recipe…
The great Yuri Gurevich is back!! Yuri is a logician, computer scientist, and inventor of abstract state machines. He currently works in Microsoft Research (he's a member of Wolfram Schulte's RiSE team). This is the third and final part in our introductory series of lectures exploring the…
With the recent release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4/Silverlight 4 (Managed 4), I figured it was time to learn a thing or two about some new
native functionality, specifically in the STL (Standard Template Library) that ships with VS 2010.
Who better to dig into some STL internals than…
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -Leslie Lamport.
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician best known for his work with distributed systems. In fact, Dr. Lamport’s research…
The Ai->Canvas plug-in enables Adobe® Illustrator® to export vector and bitmap artwork directly to an HTML5 canvas element that can be rendered in a canvas-enabled browser. The plug-in provides drawing, animation and coding options such as events so that you can build interactive, well-designed…
While in Copenhagen recently, I was able to spend some time with computer scientist
Peter Sestoft. He's currently a professor at the Copenhagen IT University and he and colleagues have created an
awesome collection library for managed code (CLI),
C5.C5 is a library of generic collection classes…