PDC 2008 Experience: Day 3: Keynote
Well in the pre keynote, PDC2009 was announced. PDC2009 will be in Los Angeles, CA happening Nov 17th - November 19th, 2009.
Microsoft Research
Talk is mostly about what Microsoft research does and why it exists.
- Source of IP and new Products
- MSR generates roughly 25% of the company's patents and generally MSR patents are more "fundamental"
- Problem Solving
- Ability to bring smart people to bear rapidly on hard problems confronting products.
Basic Research -> Agility
- Basic research group allows a company like Microsoft to respond more rapidly to change.
- Research provides a reservoir of technology, expertise and people that can be quickly brought to bear
- New technologies
- New competitors
- New business models
New Technologies
DryadLINQ and Dryad
- Harnessing the Power of cluster computing
- Automatic query plan generation by DryadLINQ
- Automatic distributed execution by Dryad
Energy and Environment
Microsoft mapped out the cooling system in the convention center to analysis the use of the energy.
Microsoft uses these same sensors to determine the hot spots in there data sensors. They use these sensors to manage and regulate the energy used in the data centers.
You can participate in the sensor map (if you have the hardware, go to http://atom.research.microsoft.com/sensormap for more information.
Healthcare
- DNA mapping
- HIV Research: Monitoring the HIV mutations, identified many of the mutation characteristics.
Education
- Built software for Tablet PCs for kids
- Center for Personal Robotics in Education
- World Wide Telescope
- Web 2.0 browsing environment for large distributed image and information data sets with integrated rich media authoring and annotation sharing.
- Equinox Release: Microsoft Worldwide Telescope: 3D view of the universe
- Zoom in and out in 3D
- Sort of like PhotoSync for space.
- Boku
- A system for allowing kids to learn to program on their own.
- Lightweight programming for kids
SecondLight
- They are trying to project on to surface not part of the initial surface.
- They hovered a sheet of paper over a Surface computing desktop and it projected a completely different image on the sheet of paper.