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57 minutes, 23 secondsThe Lambda Calculus, General Term Rewriting and Food NutritionBrian Beckman and Erik Meijer are back with another episode of BMO! In this installment, Brian and Erik spend some time explaining the Lambda Calculus and most of the time digging into a real world application of general term rewriting. The Lambda Calculus is a specialized form of term rewriting… -
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 explain what a database… -
1 hour, 8 minutes, 21 secondsChecking In: Larry Osterman - 26 Years of Programming at Microsoft and CountingLarry Osterman is a legend and one of Channel 9's favorite personalities - it's been too long since you've been on C9, Larry! Now, what would happen if C9 hero Erik Meijer interviewed Larry? Well, you'd get the latest episode of Checking In and one heck of a conversation. Oh yeah. Make yourself… -
1 hour, 10 minutes, 2 secondsChecking In: Stephan T. Lavavej - Inside STL (the person, not the library)Stephan T. Lavavej is a Channel 9 hero. You've learned a great deal from him over the years, but you've not really learned much about him. How did STL—that's what we call him since, well, look at his name and what he does for a living—get to where he is today? What's his story? Of course, given… -
1 hour, 4 minutes, 0 secondsChecking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in AssemblyGov Maharaj is a developer on the Windows Compatibility team. You know Gov from the popular C9 show, Defrag. He spends most of his time solving problems reported by customers over the phone, in email, or via automated telemetry data. Gov is one of those people who makes work-a-holics feel as though… -
59 minutes, 45 secondsBehind the Code: Charlie Kindel - Doing What It Takes To Make A Customer SuccessfulWhen thinking about businesses, large or small, it can be easy to lose sight of the individual. For the individuals within those companies, it can be difficult to see the role they play in the big picture and how their personal journey might fit in. For individuals outside those companies, also… -
35 minutes, 0 secondsCraig Symonds and Mohsen Agsen: C++ RenaissanceWhen you think about all the code executing in the world at any given time, there's a good chance you're thinking about a lot of code written in C/C++ (aka native code). As Mohsen Agsen mentions so astutely in this impromptu and candid conversation, C++ can be thought of as the dark… -
40 minutes, 35 secondsBrian Beckman: On Analog Computing, Beckman History and Life in the Universe ReduxIt'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, Erik Meijer… -
22 minutes, 38 secondsBill Hill: On Channel 9, Niners and Homo Sapiens 2.0Long time Niner, typography master, ClearType co-inventor and more-than-avid reader Bill Hill reflects on Channel 9, the state of the economy, Homo Sapiens 2.0 and the next version of, well, Bill Hill (Bill Hill 2.0). Bill was the focus of one of the very early interviews on Channel 9 and it was… -
59 minutes, 54 secondsMinds, Machines, and Intelligence: A Conversation with Eric HorvitzMicrosoft is well known for Windows, Office, .NET, Xbox, Zune and a long list of other products and technologies. Less discussed however, is a group at Microsoft that isn’t necessarily focused on ship dates, packaging, or competing products. Instead they think about how computers and technology…
