Location became ubiquitous! It’s almost two years now since people have heard about new revolution in building context-aware applications – Windows 7 & it’s context-aware APIs. As you know, in Windows 7 Microsoft shipped a...

Dear friends, Sorry for disappearing for a such long time. Quick updates: December 2008 - March 2009 - Together with Alexander Popov (MSTLab) and Vladimir Borisov created a prototype of augmented reality-based campus navigation tool May 2009...

Hi there, I’ve been quite for some time on this blog. The usual day-by-day job (ru) is making most of my time, but the progress on context-awareness research is slowly growing :) same as year ago.... http://blogs.msdn.com/semantics/archive/2008...

First of all, let me share my biggest congratulations to Gordon Bell (MSR) with publishing of his great book “ Total Recall ”! Let me just remind you, Gordon was the one behind the great project of Digital Memories, the “ MyLifeBits ” project. It is an...

Introduction into Context-aware Computing Vision When looking on to the past we can see that amount of information available for average person was growing each century but the most dramatic growth was established in the XXI and XX century. Also the less...

Hello there, Wanted to share with you my excitement on the Project Tuva by MSR. Check it here: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html The goal of project is to understand how we can augment video with contextual information. ...

Hello there, continuing on the topic we discussed in previous post . This time, let's look onto Microsoft's Information Worker Vision. As you might remember, the Microsoft Center for Information Work team with Russ Burtner , UX Lead Designer, had put...

Had a conversation with Yochay Kiriaty, who leads Windows 7 Evangelism for Developers in DPE and he had let me know about the new Windows API Code Pack that was just released a week ago . In short, Windows API Code Pack is a project inside Windows SDK...

Hello there colleagues, I’m sorry for not writing too much last time, too busy with regular job that is you now in this crazy time becoming extremely important :) So far, I wanted to say that also excuse us and our partners across the globe for no public...

Hi there colleagues! I’ve been keeping silence for last few months. It’s because we are working on a project around context aware systems and augmented reality, bringing ideas together. Also I can’t disclose more details let me share with you a few links...

I want to share with you our happiness here at Microsoft for Chris Karr’s new project, Jarvis, first deliverables. Chris Karr is working in The Laboratory for Understanding Collaborative Technology in Northwestern University, IL, US. His work is concentrated...

Hello to all! As you remember two months ago just a week after PDC 2008 I’ve created a sample Windows 7 Location Aware WPF Application. You can consider it as a mashup:   What It Showcases? How to access Windows 7 Location Platform data in your ...

Friends and colleagues, Happy New Year!! Now when Windows 7 is available for everyone , it’s now time for developing on Windows 7! Now we are creating a new dedicated blog on Windows 7 where we will talk about how you can develop context-aware applications...

Hello and Happy New Year! Windows 7 Beta is here!!! · Get the Windows 7 Beta: Download the Windows 7 Beta from the MSDN site. · Test for compatibility: Ensure your new applications are compatible with Windows Vista; that is the best way to prepare for...

Hi there, I’m working on porting my Location Aware WPF Application to Virtual Earth 3D Managed WinForms control and found that there is not so much available information on its usage. Let me share with you several links you might find useful. Here is...

http://cai.groups.live.com/ you will find here all materials from Microsoft on Context Awareness including slides from WinHEC, PDC, World Usability Day and Tech.Days. I will update this group when new slides will be available and post into this blog as...

Happy to share with you that videos of our speech (in Russian, sorry) on Context Awareness technologies that we made on World Usability Day in Russia on November 13 this year were published: You can find English version of our presentation in the previous...

Hi there again, News from the field. Last Thursday we made a third announcement on Windows Sensor and Location Platform, our commitment to make context awareness an important aspect of software development in order to make software user friendly, prospects...

hi there, decided to make several photos during my annual visit to our headquarters, and here are few of them :) 2 View from Space Needle 3 Bridle Trails State Park 4 On The Way to Washington Lake 5 Washington Lake   1 Daniel and Microsoft - better...

link is here: http://www.n-trig.com/Content.aspx?Page=Multi_Touch note that it will remove support for pen (but only in this pre-beta package).

Steven Sinofsky just announced the Sensors Dev Kit for Windows 7 and the fact that Windows 7 is Context-Aware now, starting with Windows Sensor and Location Platform! Follow news and blog posts today to know more about the new Context-Aware APIs in Windows...

Hi there, started playing with Windows Location Platform bits in Windows 7 M3 that was given on PDC 2008 to all attendees, and decided to quickly write a WPF app that shows the Virtual Earth map and my location on it. Quick Facts In M3 build, all Location...

So far, yesterday's session on Windows Sensor and Location Platform appeared finally on Channel 9 - go and watch it! The talk is about an hour, and in it Dan defines what the sensors are, what Windows 7 can do with them, showcases the current problems...

Hi there, that’s Daniel Kornev blogging right from Microsoft PDC in L.A.! As I told previously, we just released a Windows Sensors & Location Platform with Windows 7 here @ PDC, and what’s amazing is that our very own PC|3 Team representatives – Dan...

Hi there, that’s Daniel, writing right from Microsoft PDC. As you know those who are on Microsoft PDC now got a nice looking like “Sensors Development Kit” and a session on “Windows 7 Sensors & Location Platform: Creating Context-Aware Applications...