BrainTube http://braintube.tv Braincandy for your needs... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Imaging the Antikythera Mechanism http://braintube.tv/2010/03/10/imaging-the-antikythera-mechanism/ http://braintube.tv/2010/03/10/imaging-the-antikythera-mechanism/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:10 +0000 Uploads by googletechtalks http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos/rxNg-tXPPWc
Google Tech Talk March 5, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Tom Malzbender. The Antikythera Mechanism is an astronomical mechanical computer built by the ancient Greeks in 200 BCE and resides in the National Archeological Museum in Athens. In 2005, Dan Gelb and I travelled to Athens to apply our Reflectance Transformation methods to the device in the hopes of uncovering faint writing on its surface. The trip - part of an international collaboration described in the Dec. 2009 issue of Scientific American - was a success and subsequent epigraphers have been able to decipher enough new writing to allow researchers to understand what the device was and how it operated. I will give an overview of both our imaging method and the Antikythera Mechanism itself. Tom Malzbender is a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Tom works at the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision and signal processing and has developed the techniques of Reflectance Transformation, Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) and Fourier Volume Rendering. He also developed the capacitive sensing technology that allowed HP to penetrate the consumer graphics tablet market. His PTM methods are used by the National Gallery in London, the Tate Gallery and in the fields of criminal forensics, paleontology and archeology. Tom is on the program committees for several 3D graphics and vision conferences. More information can be found at www.hpl.hp.com .
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Google Tech Talk March 5, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Tom Malzbender. The Antikythera Mechanism is an astronomical mechanical computer built by the ancient Greeks in 200 BCE and resides in the National Archeological Museum in Athens. In 2005, Dan Gelb and I travelled to Athens to apply our Reflectance Transformation methods to the device in the hopes of uncovering faint writing on its surface. The trip – part of an international collaboration described in the Dec. 2009 issue of Scientific American – was a success and subsequent epigraphers have been able to decipher enough new writing to allow researchers to understand what the device was and how it operated. I will give an overview of both our imaging method and the Antikythera Mechanism itself. Tom Malzbender is a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Tom works at the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision and signal processing and has developed the techniques of Reflectance Transformation, Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) and Fourier Volume Rendering. He also developed the capacitive sensing technology that allowed HP to penetrate the consumer graphics tablet market. His PTM methods are used by the National Gallery in London, the Tate Gallery and in the fields of criminal forensics, paleontology and archeology. Tom is on the program committees for several 3D graphics and vision conferences. More information can be found at www.hpl.hp.com .
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Sure, sure.  MIX is mostly all about the great keynotes, sessions, networking and all the awesome content that is going to make your brain hurt in a good way, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go out for a good time while you’re in Sin City!  On this, our last Countdown to MIX10 show, @anyware and @ritzy get advice from THE cocktail evangelist, Robert Hess, who tells us where to find a mean cocktail in Vegas.  If we’re not at the conference, you might find us bellied up to a bar somewhere, and if you do, maybe your next round will be on us.  See ya in Vegas!

 

 

This is our last show for MIX!  Thanks all for your tremendous help!!!

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Sure, sure.  MIX is mostly all about the great keynotes, sessions, networking and all the awesome content that is going to make your brain hurt in a good way, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go out for a good time while you’re in Sin City!  On this, our last Countdown to MIX10 show, @anyware and @ritzy get advice from THE cocktail evangelist, Robert Hess, who tells us where to find a mean cocktail in Vegas.  If we’re not at the conference, you might find us bellied up to a bar somewhere, and if you do, maybe your next round will be on us.  See ya in Vegas!

 

 

This is our last show for MIX!  Thanks all for your tremendous help!!!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Countdown-to-MIX10-Drinking-Las-Vegas/feed/ 0 Give Me a Side of Scrollbar. Supersized. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/ http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:24:00 +0000 channel9 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/ Let's say you finally got your hands on a multitouch laptop, whether a PDC laptop, HP TX2, or something else. With the smaller screens, you might say to yourself "Hey, it's almost as if this scrollbar was made more for a mouse cursor than my fat greasy finger." You're kind of right, but fortunately some fine minds at Microsoft had already thought about that. Recall the Origami Experience 2.0 pack from Microsoft. This incredibly helpful bit of bytes will allow you to optimize the chrome on your apps for fat fingers, with taller title bars, bigger Min|Max|Close buttons, and wider scrollbars. There's an option to put the touch keyboard by the systray and enable a touch pointer.

Two other components of Origami Experience include Origami Now and Origami Central. Origami Now is kind of a gadget carousel that will let you create and rotate through tiles of things like weather, clocks, calendars, email, lists, pictures, notes or (pre-defined & out-of-date) RSS feeds. Origami Central includes a fat finger friendly media player, web browser, and customizable program launcher.

Keep in mind this is UMPC/Vista code. Mileage may vary, caveat emptor, etc. etc. But I've used it on the PDC laptop without a hitch.]]> Let’s say you finally got your hands on a multitouch laptop, whether a PDC laptop, HP TX2, or something else. With the smaller screens, you might say to yourself “Hey, it’s almost as if this scrollbar was made more for a mouse cursor than my fat greasy finger.” You’re kind of right, but fortunately some fine minds at Microsoft had already thought about that. Recall the Origami Experience 2.0 pack from Microsoft. This incredibly helpful bit of bytes will allow you to optimize the chrome on your apps for fat fingers, with taller title bars, bigger Min|Max|Close buttons, and wider scrollbars. There’s an option to put the touch keyboard by the systray and enable a touch pointer.

Two other components of Origami Experience include Origami Now and Origami Central. Origami Now is kind of a gadget carousel that will let you create and rotate through tiles of things like weather, clocks, calendars, email, lists, pictures, notes or (pre-defined & out-of-date) RSS feeds. Origami Central includes a fat finger friendly media player, web browser, and customizable program launcher.

Keep in mind this is UMPC/Vista code. Mileage may vary, caveat emptor, etc. etc. But I’ve used it on the PDC laptop without a hitch.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Give-Me-a-Side-of-Scrollbar-Supersized/feed/ 0 TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone/ http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:20:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/2/0/8/3/3/5/TranslatingPhone_ch9.wmv Soon the language barrier will no longer be an issue. This piece of technology allows two users, speaking different languages, to communicate instantly. The speakers audio is turned into text, then that text is translated into another language and spoken aloud to the other party in the conversation. This could truly change the world.]]> Soon the language barrier will no longer be an issue. This piece of technology allows two users, speaking different languages, to communicate instantly. The speakers audio is turned into text, then that text is translated into another language and spoken aloud to the other party in the conversation. This could truly change the world.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone/feed/ 0 Lili Cheng: Designing Experiences for Social Computing http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/WM_IN/Lili-Cheng-Virtual-Social-Experience-and-FUSE-Labs/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/WM_IN/Lili-Cheng-Virtual-Social-Experience-and-FUSE-Labs/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:34:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/5/8/2/1/3/5/WMINLiliCheng_ch9.wmv

March is Women in Technology Month. We kick off the festivities on Channel 9 with a great conversation with an industry thought leader in interactive user experience design and architecture. 
 
Meet Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, which focuses on software and services that are centered on social connectivity, real-time experiences, and rich media. Lili's a big fan of and active participant in social communication and the interactive design of social computing on the web.

Lili talks to @ritzy and @Carmine007 about her tenure at Microsoft which started in 1995.  Lili is another shining example of a successful woman in technology, but more importantly her full time job consists of both pushing the envelope of social interaction and the inventing new experiences for social computing.  Push on, Lili and team!

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March is Women in Technology Month. We kick off the festivities on Channel 9 with a great conversation with an industry thought leader in interactive user experience design and architecture. 
 
Meet Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, which focuses on software and services that are centered on social connectivity, real-time experiences, and rich media. Lili’s a big fan of and active participant in social communication and the interactive design of social computing on the web.

Lili talks to @ritzy and @Carmine007 about her tenure at Microsoft which started in 1995.  Lili is another shining example of a successful woman in technology, but more importantly her full time job consists of both pushing the envelope of social interaction and the inventing new experiences for social computing.  Push on, Lili and team!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/WM_IN/Lili-Cheng-Virtual-Social-Experience-and-FUSE-Labs/feed/ 0 Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever! http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-12-The-Best-Blend-3-Video-Ever/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-12-The-Best-Blend-3-Video-Ever/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/5/0/5/3/3/5/SLTV12Blend3_ch9.wmv You never know what hijinks are in store when Adam Kinney and John get together. In this episode, Adam makes his theatrical return to Silverlight TV and claims to have filmed the best Expression Blend 3 video ever! Adam demonstrates:
  • sketching with SketchFlow
  • importing images
  • path conversion to elements
  • sample data
  • editing item templates
  • data binding
  • behaviors
  • effects
  • visual states
  • easing

This is a great and very practical demonstration of Blend 3 from the Expression Evangelist himself.

Links for this episode:

]]> You never know what hijinks are in store when Adam Kinney and John get together. In this episode, Adam makes his theatrical return to Silverlight TV and claims to have filmed the best Expression Blend 3 video ever! Adam demonstrates:

  • sketching with SketchFlow
  • importing images
  • path conversion to elements
  • sample data
  • editing item templates
  • data binding
  • behaviors
  • effects
  • visual states
  • easing

This is a great and very practical demonstration of Blend 3 from the Expression Evangelist himself.

Links for this episode:

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-12-The-Best-Blend-3-Video-Ever/feed/ 0 Introduction to Creating Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kmcgrath/Introduction-to-Creating-Coded-UI-Tests-with-Visual-Studio-2010/ http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kmcgrath/Introduction-to-Creating-Coded-UI-Tests-with-Visual-Studio-2010/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:03:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/6/4/1/5/2/5/CreatingCodedUITestInVS2010_2MB_ch9.wmv This video provides an overview of the Visual Studio 2010 code generation features that allow testers to quickly and easily create coded UI tests directly from existing action recordings. Download the corresponding Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on Labs via the following link:

Instructions for downloading HOLs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Division User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen]]> This video provides an overview of the Visual Studio 2010 code generation features that allow testers to quickly and easily create coded UI tests directly from existing action recordings. Download the corresponding Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on Labs via the following link:

Instructions for downloading HOLs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Division User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kmcgrath/Introduction-to-Creating-Coded-UI-Tests-with-Visual-Studio-2010/feed/ 0 TechFest 2010: Project Gustav http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Project-Gustav/ http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Project-Gustav/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:50:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/9/9/4/3/3/5/Gustav_ch9.wmv TechFest is the time of year when Microsoft Research gets to show off all of the interesting projects they've been working on- and Project Gustav is absolutely incredible. This painting application looks so real I literally had to touch the screen to make sure I wasn't looking at an actual canvas. The tools are intuitive and the UI is natural and easy to use. Check out this hands-on demo and prepare yourself to be amazed.]]> TechFest is the time of year when Microsoft Research gets to show off all of the interesting projects they’ve been working on- and Project Gustav is absolutely incredible. This painting application looks so real I literally had to touch the screen to make sure I wasn’t looking at an actual canvas. The tools are intuitive and the UI is natural and easy to use. Check out this hands-on demo and prepare yourself to be amazed.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Project-Gustav/feed/ 0 Deep Dive into U-Prove Cryptographic Protocols http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Identity/Deep-Dive-into-U-Prove-Cryptographic-Protocols/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Identity/Deep-Dive-into-U-Prove-Cryptographic-Protocols/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:12:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/8/5/3/1/3/5/IdElement21StefanCrypto_ch9.wmv In this third and last IdElement installment on the U-Prove CTP series, we once again feature Dr. Stefan Brands, who spends an hour describing the crypto behind U-Prove. Wrapping your head around all the mathematical details may require some effort, but if you are interested in this space it is totally worth it. By the end of the video, you will have a clear understanding of how U-Prove works and how it can truly reconcile security and privacy requirements.
If you want to go even deeper, Stefan's book on the topic is freely available on line.

  • Get the CTP here
  • Get the C# edition
  • Get the Java edition
    • ]]>     In this third and last IdElement installment on the U-Prove CTP series, we once again feature Dr. Stefan Brands, who spends an hour describing the crypto behind U-Prove. Wrapping your head around all the mathematical details may require some effort, but if you are interested in this space it is totally worth it. By the end of the video, you will have a clear understanding of how U-Prove works and how it can truly reconcile security and privacy requirements.
    If you want to go even deeper, Stefan’s book on the topic is freely available on line.

  • Get the CTP here
  • Get the C# edition
  • Get the Java edition

    • ]]>     http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Identity/Deep-Dive-into-U-Prove-Cryptographic-Protocols/feed/ 0     Announcing Microsoft’s U-Prove Community Technical Preview (CTP) http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Identity/Announcing-Microsofts-U-Prove-Community-Technical-Preview-CTP/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Identity/Announcing-Microsofts-U-Prove-Community-Technical-Preview-CTP/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:11:00 +0000 channel9 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/8/7/2/1/3/5/UProveCTPAnnouncement_ch9.wmv In basic terms, minimal disclosure is a solution that discloses the least amount of identifying information while best limiting and constraining the use of identity-related information. In this episode of the IdElement, Dr. Stefan Brands, Principal Architect, shares the details of the highly anticipated U-Prove CTP, including availability of JAVA and C# toolkits and cryptographic specification.  He also describes some edgy identity and security scenarios that the cryptographic protocols can enable with Windows CardSpace, Windows Identity Foundation, and Active Directory Federation Services.

     

  • Get the CTP here
  • Get the C# edition
  • Get the Java edition
  • Video: U-Prove CTP - A Developer's Perspective
  • Video: Deep Dive Into U-Prove Cryptographic Protocols

     

    • ]]>     In basic terms, minimal disclosure is a solution that discloses the least amount of identifying information while best limiting and constraining the use of identity-related information. In this episode of the IdElement, Dr. Stefan Brands, Principal Architect, shares the details of the highly anticipated U-Prove CTP, including availability of JAVA and C# toolkits and cryptographic specification.  He also describes some edgy identity and security scenarios that the cryptographic protocols can enable with Windows CardSpace, Windows Identity Foundation, and Active Directory Federation Services.

     

  • Get the CTP here
  • Get the C# edition
  • Get the Java edition
  • Video: U-Prove CTP - A Developer’s Perspective
  • Video: Deep Dive Into U-Prove Cryptographic Protocols

     

    • ]]>     http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Identity/Announcing-Microsofts-U-Prove-Community-Technical-Preview-CTP/feed/ 0