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Channel 9 on Mars: Inside the Mars Exploration Mission - Past, Present and Future

Posted By: Charles | Nov 17th @ 9:33 AM
While in LA for PDC2008, we were lucky enough to get the chance to head down to Pasadena for a tour and interview at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nic Fillingham and I grabbed a cab and met up with the great Marc Mercuri (of RoboChamps fame), DPE's VP Walid Abu-Hadba and others to get a look at the JPL Mars Rover facility and meet some of the folks behind the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Our guide was the venerable Dave Lavery who is the Program Executive for Solar System Exploration at NASA.[more ]
Tags: Embedded Software, Mars, Robotics

Newton Sanches: Live Mesh P2P

Posted By: Charles | Nov 3rd @ 10:25 AM
Meet Live Mesh Test Lead Newton Sanches. His job is to ensure that Live Mesh data synchronization happens successfully and efficiently. When does Live Mesh utilize Peer to Peer data transfer as opposed to Copy-to-Cloud-Then-to-Mesh Folders? How does Live Mesh P2P work, exactly? Tune in.
Tags: Live Mesh, LiveMesh, P2P, Testing

Inside Windows 7: Larry Osterman on new audio capabilities

Posted By: Charles | Oct 31st @ 10:26 AM
The great Larry Osterman discusses what excites him most about Windows 7's new audio features. Of course, we talk about all things audio as Larry is a 24 year veteran of Microsoft and best known as the developer who makes Windows go ding.  He's also an avid blogger.[more ]
Tags: Audio, Larry Osterman, Windows 7

Scott Isaacs: Introducing Web Sandbox

Posted By: Charles | Oct 31st @ 10:19 AM
Web Sandbox is a project from Live Labs, a group focused on Internet technologies. Dragos Manolescu (who worked on Live Labs Volta and Political Streams) and Scott Isaacs (who worked on Windows Live Gadgets) made the initial project pitch. Since then the Web Sandbox team leveraged the expertise of and talent from other groups interested in securing the web, such as Windows Live, MSN and DP Languages. You have to check this out:http://websandbox.livelabs.com/ Please try and break the isolation model by injecting clever scripts on the websandbox website. If you find gaping holes, share it right in the forums on the site (they are fundamentally transparent).Enjoy![more ]
Tags: Dragos Manolescu, html, Javascript, Live Labs, Programming, Scott Isaacs, Web Sandbox, Web standards

Countdown@PDC: Day 4 Recap

Posted By: Charles | Oct 30th @ 5:06 PM
Mike and Ritzy wax on the Day 4 at PDC 2008. It's a bittersweet day since it's the final day of PDC. Mike and Ritzy share interesting stats about the event, talk aboutPDC 2009 (they go back to work next week for MIX09 planning and PDC2009 planning - Mike, Ritzy, you work too hard!)Congratulations to all involved with PDC2008. Amazing event. Thank you!!![more ]
Tag: PDC 2008

Ori Amiga: Mesh Mobile

Posted By: Charles | Oct 30th @ 8:16 AM
Niners loved Ori’s last appearance talking about Live Mesh, so we brought him back to show off the combination of two of his passions:  the Mesh and his car.  Ori started hacking with the Live Framework and some nifty consumer electronics to build a Mesh-aware in-car automation system.  Check it out...
Tags: Live Mesh, LiveMesh, Mobility, Ori Amiga

Steven Sinofsky at the PDC2008 Open Space

Posted By: Charles | Oct 30th @ 7:22 AM

Steven Sinofsky participates in an Open Space Discussion on Windows 7 at the PDC.
Tags: Community, PDC 2008, Steven Sinofsky, Windows 7

Countdown@PDC: Day 3 Recap

Posted By: Charles | Oct 30th @ 7:11 AM
Mike and Ritzy wax on Day 3's events and talk about next year's PDC announcement. Rick Rashid gives the Day 3 keynote. Anders Hejlsberg and Daniel Moth are neck and neck for Day 3's most popular session attendee review score.
Tag: PDC 2008

George Chrysanthakopoulos: Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008

Posted By: Charles | Oct 29th @ 1:37 PM
The great George Chrysanthakopoulos (CCR creator) chats with us briefly about the new CCR and DSS Visual Toolkit. You first learned about CCR right here on Channel 9. Since that time it's had a very interesting evolution. The CCR found itslef at the core of the Microsoft Robotics engine on the one hand and running in the cloud on 50,000 servers processing billions of transactions. George and team have always been impressed with how people have used the CCR (many folks have downloaded the Microsoft Robotics SDK for the expres purpose of getting at the CCR). Well, now you gaet the stand-alone CCR plus DSS in a neat application development package including Visual Programming Language.[more ]
Tags: CCR, DSS, George Chrysanthakopoulos, Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008, PDC 2008

Don Box, Paul Vick and Chris Anderson: Introducing M

Posted By: Charles | Oct 29th @ 9:58 AM
Don Box, Chris Anderson and Paul Vick dig into their new programming language (well, it's a data modeling language that you use to create DSLs to express your data as opposed to a general purpose language...). What is M, exactly? What does it do? What can it do? To answer these questions, Don, Chris and Paul create a Channel 9 language to express Channel 9 video data. Now that's a great idea! Smiley Tune in, learn the thinking behind M and how to build data grammars with it. It's a very interesting way to program data.[more ]
Tags: Chris Anderson, Don Box, M, Oslo, Paul Vick, Programming, Programming Languages
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