TechFest overload
It’s hard to know what to write about first - the cute game that teaches five-year-olds computer programming concepts, a computer that turns into a telescope, the CAPTCHA login test that uses cats and dogs, more examples of remote collaboration surface computing, or a visual answering machine for the home.
After a day at Microsoft’s TechFest conference in Redmond, my mind is swimming. This year is the 15th anniversary of the research division get-together and, to mark the occasion, what is mostly an in-house event was opened to media as never before.
I must admit I have fairly low expectations of most single company conferences, where there may only be a couple of innovations or items of actual news. TechFest, by stark contrast, packed a punch with a full day of about 50 demonstrations (truly diverse) from real researchers (not marketers) candidly chatting about their work. A day is simply not enough!
Well, time to get to work. It’s going to be a long night.
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