Computing

Meet Xin Wang, SciFi fan and an expert in artificial intelligence (she has a Ph.D in it!).  Today she works on Markov decision problems and how to use approximate optimization problems that can be traced all the way back to Sir Issac Newton to solve combinatorial optimization problems. Xin…

Software Architect and Astrophysicist Brian Beckman has a new job at Microsoft. No longer working with Erik Meijer on cutting edge developer tools and programming languages, Brian has joined a very small team of distinguished engineers and technical fellows that seeks to create a new product for…

I attended Lang.NET 2008 and, as expected, learned a great deal from some of the industry's finest language and compiler minds. One of the most interesting talks was Gilad Bracha's session on his new programming language, Newspeak. Newspeak is really compelling from a language design perspective…

You've seen a few conversations on Channel 9 about Microsoft's Entity Framework. Well, it's time for another one, but with a new twist...Brian Beckman recently had a deep technical chat with Sam Druker about the Entity Framework data model and related technologies. Sam is GM of…

Microsoft is developing a number of technologies to simplify the expression of parallelism in code. An example of this work is Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX), a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware.…

Meet Dr. Margaret Burnett, a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. She is exploring hypotheses correlating and differentiating (or unifying) both the design and usage patterns of software by…

I recently attended Lang.NET 2008 and, as expected, learned a great deal from some of the industry's finest language and compiler minds.Here, we meet Dan Ingalls and Allen Wirfs-Brock, two legendary Smalltalkers (contributors to the language). Dan Ingalls is well known for his work at Xerox PARC and…

Michael Scherotter interviews Michael Marina and Patrick Tran, founders of Reborn Studio, a web development company that is specializing in building ASP.Net-based web video community sites like My Damn Channel, WebRidesTV, LogicBuy, and  LogicTV.

On today’s TechNet radio, we talk with Dave Ohara about building a Green Datacenter.  What is a Green Datacenter, and how can it be implemented?  What are some strategies to getting executive buyoff? Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer …

Kevin Remde and Shawn Hansen discuss how customers and software developers have introduced HPC in new ways, driving productivity from small turnkey clusters to clusters as large as 7000 nodes. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Kevin Remde – IT Pro…