Interesting People in Seattle Part 2 of 4: Craig and Mark - the future is Parallel and Multi-Core
so we meet again...
Some other folks I met at the mind meld in Seattle.
Meet Craig...
Craig Mundie our chief research and strategy officer did a keynote. You may recognize him as the guy holding Bill Gates responsible for Microsoft Bob :) Craig's keynote was centered around the future of computing, the unsustainable pace of "Moore's Law", how parallel computing can help and what Microsoft is doing and needs to do. Very neat stuff indeed. If you poke around his exec page, you'll find some gems in terms of speeches and papers that Craig has delivered. Of particular interest to me given our recent news, is this essay entitled: Information Technology: Advancing Global Health
This essay makes the following main arguments:
- three major stressors on global health care can, and must, be addressed:
- health care systems in general are too focused on acute care and late-stage disease
- health care is prohibitively expensive and difficult to obtain in most emerging economies
- the world’s population is aging significantly, which is already putting mounting economic strain on governments, insurers, taxpayers, and caregivers
- information technology (IT) can help scale health care appropriately to each economy and reduce the burden of health care delivery on medical practitioners, caregivers, and economies encumbered by aging populations
- information technology can also enable a transformation from disease management to a focus on proactive wellness, also known as “early health”
Meet Mark...
I *know* you know him :) but it was great to see him present. I was fortunate to see Mark perform twice. One session was a great romp through some of the "Case of the ..." content on his blog. The other was a session on what's in the Windows Server 2008 box in terms of infrastructure architecture. This was reminiscent of a recent Channel9 video - Mark Russinovich: On Working at Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 Kernel, MinWin vs ServerCore, HyperV, Application Virtualization.
When I visit sessions, I look for technical content but also presenter command of the craft. You should see Mark. He covered the content, covered the questions, you never felt slighted by a "lets rush, we are running out of time" and he ended on time. Slick! If you are interested in seeing Mark, check him out on March 5th: https://ms.istreamplanet.com/events/Default.asp Its about Vista Deployment but you could attend to see the craft ;)
P.S. If you like that Channel9 video, you've got to see this one: Burton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of Parallelism.
The future is parallel and multi-core and yes, we'll have a parallel computing session at our developer conference.
