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Paul Terry Walhus of Spring.net records an Ascentium demo of using the Microsoft Xbox Kinect to control some boxing robots at a SXSW 2011 trade show booth. Ascentium’s Kinectobots adapt Kinect technology to allow contenders to use their bodies as the controllers and drive the action of the classic Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em toy robots. The robots are assembled by Ascentium developers and mounted on a mobile platform with wheels so that players can duke it out in real life with more mobility. Participants can face off against friends, view others engaged in battle and score some Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em stickers and mini thumb robots. Everyone can also follow the fight results at @Kinectobots on Twitter. “Since the Kinect hit the streets, people have put together some pretty amazing hacks.” said Steve Farrell, Executive Creative Director at Ascentium. “There are “Minority Report” interfaces, graphic manipulation tools and motion capture animation programs. But nobody’s built fighting robots, which to us seemed like ...

In this demo with Jonathan Ross, Software Architect, Microsoft: Bringing parallel programming to mainstream software developers is one of the main goals of Intel’s Tera-scale research program. Microsoft Visual Studio is a widely popular software development environment that can also be used for developing parallel applications to run on the SCC many-core platform. Visual Studio 2008 is demonstrated working together with Intel’s research SCC message passing environment. This allows programmers to directly take advantage of the cloud-like message passing architecture of SCC. Proves how easy it is for a programmer to setup a project, edit, compile and run applications that take advantage of the unique features of the experimental SCC. This podcast is from the live webcast at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco on December 2, 2009. This demo followed Intel CTO, Justin Rattner’s opening remarks on the Single-Chip Cloud Computer, the latest Intel Labs milestone in the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program.

http://bit.ly/2VCtPu, Embarcadero, a leading provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, is unveiling a special edition of DBArtisan for SQL Azure at this weeks Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). DBArtisan is Embarcaderos database administration tool for heterogeneous DBMS environments. Its schema extraction and migration capabilities enable organizations to more quickly deploy cloud applications and migrate some or all of their existing SQL Server database schema to SQL Azure Database, Microsoft Corp.s new cloud-based relational database service.

http://bit.ly/2VCtPu, Embarcadero, a leading provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, is unveiling a special edition of DBArtisan for SQL Azure at this weeks Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). DBArtisan is Embarcaderos database administration tool for heterogeneous DBMS environments. Its schema extraction and migration capabilities enable organizations to more quickly deploy cloud applications and migrate some or all of their existing SQL Server database schema to SQL Azure Database, Microsoft Corp.s new cloud-based relational database service.

Brian Goldfarb, Group Product Manager of the UX Platform and Tools Strategy group at Microsoft, chats about multimedia, creative teams, designers, developers, Silverlight, desk clutter and endless email sessions. Visit www.AquentStudios.com for more information.

We fought Digital Restrictions Management through our DefectiveByDesign.org campaign, released version 3 of the GNU General Public License to help neutralize anti-free-software laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and defend against Microsoft's attempts to make free software proprietary through patent promises, released the GNU Affero GPL to support developers building network server software, supported fully free software distributions like gNewSense, backed high-priority software development projects like the free Flash player Gnash, and saw the continued success of our campaign to lift the "Java trap" with Sun's ongoing release of the Java platform under the GPL. Finally, following on from our discussion at the beginning of 2007 with major manufacturers and our release of the white paper, "Hardware Free From Restrictions," general-purpose computers are now available from major retailers with free software preloaded.