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While most people were turning their clocks backward over the weekend, Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie was moving his forward, five to 10 years into the future. Mundie last year took over Bill Gates' job guiding long-term strategy at the world's biggest software company. He's an erudite ...
Microsoft Research demo prototype glass screen PC with gesture and eye-tracking control
Microsoft Research demo prototype glass screen PC with gesture and eye-tracking control
slashgear.com — Say what you like about Microsoft, but their Research arm certainly know how to put together an... eye-catching demo. Chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie has been doing a tour of US colleges showing off a prototype next-gen computer – among other things – that has a ... (more) Microsoft Research demo prototype glass screen PC with ...
Craig Mundie College Tour Virtual Press Room
microsoft.com — Today’s students live at a time when technology has the potential to make significant changes in the... world. Huge leaps in computing power, the shift to a client plus cloud platform, the emergence of more natural user interfaces, the ability to ... (more) Craig Mundie College Tour Virtual Press Room
Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it
Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it
networkworld.com — A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft , but when... a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination, that's an opinion to note. Keith Curtis, author of the book After ... (more) Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it
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Microsoft’s Craig Mundie on Future Interfaces, Computer Science Education, and Life After Bill G
Xconomy — ... From what I can tell, the goal is to stir up interest in computer science, give audiences a glimpse of future computing systems as Microsoft sees them, and stimulate discussions about how these technologies can help solve some pressing global problems. (You can read more about Mundie’s tour and demos in this Seattle Times story.) ...

Microsoft to show off new visualization language at PDC
All about Microsoft — ... for visualization, data management, computation, modelling, and more, Calsyn explained in his post. He added:“One extension might give you access to remote data on Azure; another might allow you to draw heat-maps over Virtual Earth; and another might support Perfect Plasticity Approximation models or computations on the Hadley climate model data .” MSCSS was one of the tools that Craig Mundie demonstrated during his university tour this past week. Mundie told the Seattle Times that tools like MSCSS would do for scientists what Excel did for business folks : Make t easier to ...

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