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Bill Buxton & Microsoft Student Insiders at MIX10

March 31, 10 //

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Microsoft Student Insiders, Joe Osborne and Tom Ziegman, were lucky enough to spend some time with the busiest man at MIX10, Bill Buxton. Bill talks about the complexity (and necessity) of integrating the disciplines of technology, business and design. And true to his Canadian heritage, he uses a hockey analogy to explain why all members of the team need to play a part in creating Natural User Interfaces.

Get the latest on the Microsoft Student Insiders by watching the #MicrosoftSI tag on Twitter.

Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer – Perspectives on Design

March 30, 10 //

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Bill Buxton and Erik Meijer are both highly respected scientists in very different fields. Erik is a programming language designer and creator of LINQ, “Volta”, Rx and other things we can’t share publicly yet. Bill is a user experience design researcher, musician and a celebrity in the design community.

We figured we should put them together, roll the cameras and see what happens. The topic: different perspectives on the essence of design, regardless of specific domain.

It turns out that Erik and Bill have many similarities including an interesting Dutch connection. This is a pure Channel 9 conversation that happened in real time at MIX10, broadcast live.

So, what happens when you put two masters of different domains together for the first time, on stage, live? Tune in to find out.

Windows Phone 7 FourSquare Demo: MIX 2010 Keynote

March 25, 10 //

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Now that TechCrunch just LOVES this app- it seems like a good time to show it off
Microsoft demonstrated an application that highlighted the location and mapping capabilities of Windows Phone 7 Series using the Foursquare Labs social network game service.

Recent Developments in Deep Learning

March 22, 10 //

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Recent Developments in Deep Learning

Google Tech Talk March 19, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Geoff Hinton, University of Toronto. Deep networks can be learned efficiently from unlabeled data. The layers of representation are learned one at a time using a simple learning module that has only one layer of latent variables. The values of the latent variables of one module form the data for training the next module. Although deep networks have been quite successful for tasks such as object recognition, information retrieval, and modeling motion capture data, the simple learning modules do not have multiplicative interactions which are very useful for some types of data. The talk will show how to introduce multiplicative interactions into the basic learning module in a way that preserves the simple rules for learning and perceptual inference. The new module has a structure that is very similar to the simple cell/complex cell hierarchy that is found in visual cortex. The multiplicative interactions are useful for modeling images, image transformations, and different styles of human walking. Speaker bio: www.cs.toronto.edu

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Bing Maps announces new World Wide Telescope Integration

March 22, 10 //

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Chris Pendleton and I sat down and he showed off the amazing new World Wide Telescope and Bing Maps integration. The WorldWide Telescope application allows you to view most of the features available in the Silverlight client right in Bing Maps. Yes, the WWT provides real time information about how the space is moving over the Earth. This provides context for where celestial entities are in real time if you were to look up at the night sky. Upon launching the WWT Bing Maps App, you may get so excited and just want to see SOMETHING, so just jump right in with stars.
For more info check out Chris’s BLOG POST.

TechFest 2010: Project Gustav

March 2, 10 //

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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.

Maynard’s Revenge: Keynesianism and the Crisis

February 26, 10 //

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Maynard's Revenge: Keynesianism and the Crisis

Google Tech Talk February 16, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research. Historically, financial crises have been commonplace. Over the past two decades the sector has staged the 1987 stock market crash, the Mexican crisis, the Asian crisis, Enron, the LTCM collapse, the end of the internet bubble, and 2007-09. Why did the latest episode almost derail the world economy? The macroeconomics developed by John Maynard Keynes and his close followers provides the only plausible set of answers, including rising income inequality which spilled over into debt accumulation at the same time as household consumption rose, low real interest rates, massive expansion of financial assets and liabilities as investors borrowed heavily (increased leverage) to buy assets with rising prices, and an ample supply of imports and capital inflows from the rest of the world. In an accommodating political economic environment these factors linked the real and financial sides of the economy to create the crisis.

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Computational Analysis Methods and Issues in Human Cognitive Neuroscience

January 15, 10 //

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Computational Analysis Methods and Issues in Human Cognitive Neuroscience

Google Tech Talk January 14, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Bradley Voytek. There is a massive, relatively uncoordinated effort underway to map out the relationship between brain and behavior. Human neuroimaging experiments abound with approximately 30000 neuroimaging studies performed in 2008 alone. Most of the data from these experiments are analyzed on an individual desktop or small, local cluster. Neuroimaging data contains information about neural activity in both time and space and can easily exceed 1GB per subject. In order to analyze the functional properties of neuronal networks these data can be decomposed in a variety of ways (behavioral condition, principal and independent components, phase and frequency components, graphs and digraphs, etc.). This exponentially increases analysis time and database sizes creating bottlenecks in the analysis work flow. I will discuss a variety of neuroimaging methods in terms of the sources of the signals measured, what these signals actually inform us about how the brain gives rise to cognition and behavior, and how this information can inform medical diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore I will highlight how advances in computational processing have improved data analysis and discuss the computational roadblocks that impede research progress.

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Passionate Giving Giving Time and Treasure with Purpose!

January 14, 10 //

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Passionate Giving Giving Time and Treasure with Purpose!

Google Tech Talk December 9, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Steve Cardamone. You should expect more from your generous donations. Enjoy a conversation with three gentlemen about why and how to give of our personal resources while determining the ever important: who. Lets ponder some postulations relating to giving with a strategy. Steve Cardamone is the Executive Director for the Give Something Back Foundation, a privately funded foundation that helps financially disadvantaged children who are committed to academic excellence complete a degree. Prior to that he worked as Director of Development for Lockport Township High School, and he currently serves on the board of directors for several other foundations. Bob Tucker is the associate director for the Give Something Back Foundation. Prior to that he was the executive director of graduate and adult admissions for Lewis University as well as Executive Director for the Graduate School of Management. Stephen Kahnert is a non-profit executive, consultant, and entrepreneur who has years of experience building and restructuring foundations, schools, and healthcare organizations.

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Stem Cells But Were Afraid to Ask

January 11, 10 //

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Stem Cells But Were Afraid to Ask

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