{"id":1277,"date":"2007-06-15T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/microsoft-research-software-for-the-21st-century\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T21:52:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:52:45","slug":"microsoft-research-software-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/microsoft-research-software-for-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research Software for the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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)\u00a0Event and while on the site I noticed that you can now watch a video of <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/aboutmsr\/presskit\/aherbert\/\">Andrew Herbert<\/a>, managing director of <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/aboutmsr\/labs\/cambridge\/default.aspx\">Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/a>, who discusses the 20th century computer systems assumptions that are no longer true in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>He discusses things\u00a0like the single processor systems and the single threaded programs, low level programming languages, screens on desks, hierarchical file systems, and virtual memory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/aboutmsr\/videos\/cambridge.aspx\">The video<\/a> also showcases a number of exciting new technologies that have been developed at Microsoft Research Cambridge. 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