Theory
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18 minutes, 41 secondsWhat is a database, really?Alice wanders down a rabbit hole one day and finds Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman in the C9 studio. What's going to happen? What does she find? There's a plastic mouse, a hard drive, a hammer, database acid, a whiteboard and a couple geniuses in very rare form. Erikand Brian… -
59 minutes, 56 secondsC9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich - Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 2 of nC9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich - Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity Feb 16, 2011 at 9:29 AM
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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… -
44 minutes, 31 secondsC9 Lectures: Dr. Brian Beckman - Covariance and Contravariance in Physics 1 of 1By now, you know Brian Beckman given how many times he's been featured on Channel 9 and, well, just how amazing he is. Brian is an astrophysicist and software architect currently working on a technology we can't talk about...yet... Stay tuned for that. Dr. Beckman is the perfect… -
Silverlight 2 powering Netflix on MacIt's been discussed for a while, but the time is now - Netflix has just announced Silverlight 2 will power their streaming video service, which had been Windows-only until now. Silverlight 2 adds support for PlayReady DRM, so we now have the same DRM support on Mac and Windows. The service will be…
