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Inside the new Channel 9: Random Team Drive-By

Charles — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:55:00 GMT

Meet the people behind Channel 9. This is an OldSchool stroll through the halls. Who are the key players on 9? Also, we drop in on Duncan and Dan in the midst of a bug triage. Tune in.

Xbox 360 architect Nick Baker interviewed on Channel 9

JD Lewin — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:57:00 GMT

The silicon guts of your favorite game console (and ours) had to be designed by someone right? Charles from Channel 9 interviewed Nick Baker, the managing architect for Xbox 360 hardware. Their candid discussion covers the interesting motivations behind putting PowerPC technology at the core of the console. Though it shouldn’t be a big surprise, the architecture was constrained by schedule and final cost, which drove most of the decisions on Nick’s team. Nick and Charles also talk through the issues around compatibility, operating system design, and plenty of other nitty gritty details about that gorgeous white box.

Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.0: Skynet around the corner

JD Lewin — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:45:00 GMT

In an announcement that will surely send geeks and paranoid futurists into equal states of excitement, Microsoft Robotics Studio goes 1.0 today. Keep this man's face in your mind, as Tandy Trower is on his way to becoming the real-life Alfred Lanning.

Earlier this summer Channel 9 interviewed the MSR team, and now the hard work of this team is moving closer towards the future of Bill Gate's Scientific American article, "A Robot in Every Home." Now if we can just avoid the inevitable robot uprising