Advanced video processing

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004433-56.html

What more to say...
It seems like magic...

DirectCompute on my hardware?

Well, there is nice benchmark tool for comparative testing:
http://www.ngohq.com/news/16710-first-directcompute-benchmark-released.html

Compare CPU vs OpenCL vs DirectCompute....

Nice :)

PEX - Automated regression testing...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Pex/

If you haven’t opened this link already, then you don’t need one. Any additional commend is unnecessary..

How will Microsoft conquer iPhone and Android markets?

It will use his greatest strengths, great IT community and great IT infrastructure.
But how :)
Simple, provide development infrastructure .NET runtime to selected platforms.

And Mono project is created, five years ago…

So now we are ready for next MS IT ecosystem step-in.

Lecture of the year on developing AI...

Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009 - Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity from Michael Anissimov on Vimeo.

Media Foundation...

Media Foundation is the future of DirectShow...
For now, it replaces playback functionality, leaving editing and encoding to still living DirectShow...

More on great wiki article...

Absolutely amazing usage of human potential...

MUST SEE!
And must be learned from, but that is level 2 :)

And now, most amazing usage of technology and human potential ever. period.