http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Content/icons/frog.ico http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Content/icons/frog.png 2007-03-06T14:54:00 Code/Tea/Etc. http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/tags/roryblyth/atom Oxite http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Content/icons/frog.png http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Blog/rory-gives-us-the-inside-scoop-on-the-microsoft-research-techfest 2007-03-06T14:53:00 2007-03-06T14:54:00 Duncan <blockquote> <p><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=288554" target="_blank">Microsoft Research TechFest - Intro, DynaVis, and FastDash</a> </p> <p><em>... In this, the first video in what will be a series covering this event, we get a nice introduction to TechFest, some info about Microsoft Research (MSR), and two projects: DynaVis and FastDash.<br><br>When you watch this video, hopefully you get an idea of why I'm so excited right now. Once I have the whole series online, you'll be able to see the amazing work being done in MSR - and this only represents a few projects. There are many others. ...</em></p></blockquote> <p>Every year at Microsoft there is a little internal-only conference where Microsoft Research (MSR) shows off their projects. It is very cool but very private (badges checked at the door, etc...). Well, this year it is a bit different... For <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/techfest/default.aspx" target="_blank">MSR TechFest 2007</a> they've allowed folks to come in and interview the researchers, take pictures/video, whatever... crazy stuff and you get to see the results first on Channel 9.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.neopoleon.com/home/default.aspx" target="_blank">Rory</a> tours us around, gives us an intro to the whole event and even covers a couple of projects... and this is just the first of the series!</p> http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Blog/rory-joins-the-team 2006-10-26T10:07:00 2006-10-26T10:07:00 Duncan <p>If you don't already know Rory, well... keep watching <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/" target="_blank">Channel 9</a>... I'm sure you'll be hearing more from him through that venue soon.</p> For now, he has joined us over in the 'dev' hallway, which I'm sure he finds quite exciting... maybe not as exciting as his Microsoft provided 'temp housing', but maybe it is close. <blockquote> <p>"My apartment is very nice, but the complex in which it is situated is a tad on the trashy side. I expected to find a just-add-water meth lab in the kitchen of my corporate apartment. It would have provided me a way to fit in and make friends with the neighbors, but alas and alack, such luck was not to be mine. I wasn't even provided a gun." -- From <a href="http://neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2006/10/19/22315.aspx" target="_blank">Rory's moving day post</a></p></blockquote>