TouchDevelop
Create apps everywhere on all your devices! For Windows Phone and the web. In the TouchDevelop programming environment you write scripts by tapping on the screen. You do not need a separate PC or keyboard.…
Future Social Experiences Keynote
Dennis Gannon chairs this keynote by Lili Cheng, Microsoft Research, at Faculty Summit 2011. Today, social software, which was initially embraced by youth, influences traditional companies, governments, and people of all ages. It has changed…
Vision-Based Natural User Interfaces Keynote
Although computer vision continues to be a formidable computing challenge, vision techniques are maturing rapidly and finding their way into many applications—including natural user interfaces based on a visual understanding of scenes, actions, and 3-D…
Kinect for Windows SDK Tutorial: Introduction and Overview
This is the first of two tutorial sessions about the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). Stewart Tansley chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011. Gavin Jancke of Microsoft Research introduces the SDK and…
Kinect for Windows SDK Tutorial: Deep Dive
This is the second of two tutorial sessions about the Kinect for Windows SDK. Stewart Tansley chairs this session at Faculty Summit 2011. In this tutorial, Eric Rudolph and Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez of Microsoft…