Kevin Schofield - Inside Microsoft Research

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Jul 14th, 2004 @ 3:20 PM | 22,894 Views | 16 Comments
Kevin Schofield, general manager at Microsoft Research, has a unique job. He's responsible for helping move technologies out of Microsoft Research and into Microsoft's products.

Recently he invited Channel 9 to come over for a chat and a tour around to meet some interesting people inside Microsoft Research.

Over the next week you'll see the tour -- some really interesting people work at Microsoft, including the inventor of the laser printer.

Anyway, here's the interview with Kevin. If you want to hear more from Kevin, check out his weblog.

By the way, did you know that Research now is publishing RSS feeds so you can always be up to date on the latest that they are working on?
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#Jul 15th, 2004 @ 1:38 PM
ArSa
ArSa
HAL 9000
it's fine, i have headphones and can hear well if i turn everything up. thank you Smiley
#Jul 15th, 2004 @ 4:10 PM
CRPietschmann
CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann
Can you really store a video recording of your entire life in a pedabyte? That is alot of video!! You wouldn't really need to remember things if you had that. You could literally search through your memories. That is really kind of scary if you think about it.
#Jul 16th, 2004 @ 3:28 PM
bobnicholls
bobnicholls

The problem is not the recording or storing of a video of an entire life, but how one would go about searching it. Neither voice nor video recognition is anywhere close to being able to offer a solution to this and that is not going to change in the foreseeable future.

In practice we will soon have the technology that will provide functionality analogous to a (digital)vcr with one long program of your life. You will be able to replay the events of a particular time but not much else. I expect it will be a pretty boring program to boot.


Bob

#Jul 16th, 2004 @ 10:16 PM
kevinsch
kevinsch
Jim Gray is my source -- he was the one who told me that it takes a petabyte of storage. He is generally a source I would trust. Smiley
#Jul 17th, 2004 @ 1:31 AM
bobnicholls
bobnicholls

How about this calculation?

An average life has:

80 years * 365.25 days * 24 hours * 60 mins * 60 sec = 2,524,608,000 seconds


Recording at a reasonable quality:

@300K per sec = 757,382,400,000,000 bytes = 0.75 pedabytes

 

#Jan 14th @ 3:15 AM
nona
nona

That seems like a hard job,  so many good products never make it out of R&D

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