Just thought id check out the Microsoft Research Website before I go the Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge next week for my third Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) Event and while on the site I noticed that you can now watch a video of Andrew Herbert, managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, who discusses the 20th century computer systems assumptions that are no longer true in the 21st century.

He discusses things like the single processor systems and the single threaded programs, low level programming languages, screens on desks, hierarchical file systems, and virtual memory.

The video also showcases a number of exciting new technologies that have been developed at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Researchers who participated in the video include Steve Hodges and Simon Peyton Jones.

And according to the site, starting June 2007, you will also be able to watch this Microsoft Research Cambridge documentary on British Airways in-flight video on demand systems.

Watch it here.