History

Visual C++ turned 20 this month! It certainly has come a long way. How did it begin? What were the goals way back when? Fortunately for us, one of the original team members VC++ team members, Jan Gray, set up a reunion of former and current employees who worked on the first…

It's been far too long since we've chatted with the great Brian Beckman, an astrophysicist, software architect, and Channel 9 icon. Some of you may know him as the wizard who appears out of thin air whenever the word Monad is said three times in succession. :->A few weeks ago,…

Swedish publisher Legendo Entertainment today released the first in a series of trailers for Attack on Pearl Harbor, an arcade-style air combat game for the PC set in World War II's Pacific Theatre. View the trailer at the game's website: www.pearlharbor-game.com Attack on Pearl Harbor provides…

Ancient HistoryCompression, although an obsession with me since I was 19, didn't appear to be a career option until many years after that. My years at Hampshire College were spent essentially majoring in neuropsychology, minoring in computer science, and spending my evening and weekends helping out…

The DVD Association (DVDA) has just held its election, and I've been elected as a member of the Board of Directors. I feel very honored to be invited into such August company, led by Sonic's Jim Taylor and my old colleague Bruce Nazarian. Bruce gives a great overview of where the DVDA is going…

This is the 10th anniversary of the Streaming Media organization, with its eponymous web site, trade shows, and magazine. In celebration of this, they've started an annual "Streaming Media All-Stars" list. In their own words: Streaming Media magazine is proud to announce the selection of…

The insight you’ll come away with after reading, “Dogfood Doesn’t Always Taste Good,” by Mike Calligaro for the Windows Mobile Team Blog is nothing short of astounding. The boys and girls in WinMo have one of the most difficult jobs at Microsoft; developing software for devices must fight to get…

Did you feel the depression in space and time on Wednesday night? At around 10pm Pacific Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sat down together for their first public joint interview at the D: All Things Digital conference. In one of the most exciting moments for anyone following the personal computing…

Social networks are not new. Humans throughout our existence communicate, connect and correspond with like minded humans. Written documents are the evidence trail that historians and museum curators, such as Matthew Connell from Sydney’s Powerhouse Musuem, use to decipher the lives of famous…

Did Geeks, as we know them today: polymaths, introverted, shy with the opposite sex exist in earlier times? They sure did. Matthew Connell from The Powerhouse Museum introduced me to a William Stanley Jevons. A true geek of the 19th Century. Who is Jevons? He lived at the same time as Babbage, and…