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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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… from today’s TechNews from ACM… ContextAware Car Other autonomous car work is under way as well. Using technology it created for its own DARPA race car, MIT AgeLab is working on what it call its Aware Car . The Aware Car is black Volvo with minicameras
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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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