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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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As promised , at PDC we Microsoft made a disclosure of Windows 7 to the general public! And, as I told previously, we now are shipping a context-aware Platform consisting of Sensor & Location platforms as a part of Windows 7! Today and by end of PDC
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Well, sorry for not posting last months, and happy to continue posting here :) Wonder this post should be about what? Aha, right, about context-awareness, and, specifically, about one of the important channels to achieve it on Windows platform, aha, right,
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Hello there. Today I'll discuss System Contexts area. Do you know what's that? That's your environment - your computer's sound level, your presence, current window context - say is your active window maximized or of normal size, your tasks etc. Windows
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Hello my name is Daniel Kornev, I'm Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Russia, and here I will post about the things I research in my spare time - all around Semantics and Contexts. Have to say that these terms may have nothing in common with their usual
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