KYN04 Research in the 21st Century

The keynote from Microsoft Research. While it's all kind of interesting, I'd draw your attention to these demos:

• Skip to 35' : Sensors and green IT. Monitoring the environment to understand, predict and improve energy usage
• Skip to 64' : World Wide Telescope
• Skip to 70' : Boku, a graphical based UI with a gaming metaphor to introduce kids to programming. Very cool.
• Skip to 84' : Secondlight. Take Microsoft Surface to a new level (above the surface) and you get this. Watch it. Amazing.

TL26 Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio

• Daniel would never let me forget it if I didn't recommend his session

PC39 Inside the Olympics: An Architecture and Development Review

• Heard good reports on this one and it was a stunning accomplishment

BB06 Live Services: Mesh Services Architecture and Concepts

• No link to this on the PDC site but the video's there. Turn the volume up as Abolade is very softly spoken

PC54 Mono and .NET

• Miguel de Icaza and Mono get a slot at PDC. What next?