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Tech Talk Radio|TTR Ep 2108 - Telstra laptops - too good to be true? G9 changes its name to Terria, Conroy delays network deadline, Aussie's loose millions to Nigeria, Microsoft search cash back, Rico Malvar talks to Tech Talk Radio, and in Part one, we look at the mobil Episode
The world of technology is an ever changing feast of gadgets and software. When it comes to the world’s most influential technological companies, Microsoft, Apple and Google would have to be those at the top of the list.
Telecommunications companies globally provide the conduit for connectivity, but if it weren’t for the hardware and software vendors then life would not be as it is today.
Some people embrace technology and some treat it with contempt. Such is human nature, but the one thing that is here to stay is the rapid emergence of new and interesting gadgets designed to make our lives easier.
A few weeks ago, I had the privileged of talking to Rico Malvar, the managing director of Research for Microsoft based in Redmond. Today you’ll get an insight into what and how we’ll be doing things around the turn of the next decade.
Rico was a founding member of the Signal Processing research group at Microsoft Research, which evolved into the Communication and Collaboration Systems group and the Knowledge Tools group. His technical contributions at Microsoft include co-development of the Windows Media Audio digital audio format, image compression technologies for Microsoft Office, Tablet PC, Xbox 360 and Flight Simulator X, digital elevation map compression technologies for Flight Simulator X, rights management technologies for Windows Media, new video transform and quantization techniques that were adopted into H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC), ink compression formats for Microsoft Office and Tablet PC, acoustic signal processing technologies for Windows Messenger, Microsoft Office RoundTable, and Windows Vista, and co-development of the HD Photo format for digital pictures, which is the basis for the upcoming JPEG XR standard. His technical interests include audio and video signal enhancement and compression, multirate signal processing, signal decompositions, fast algorithms, coding theory, and electronics hardware.
Also on This Weeks Show
The G9 change their name and put $5m on the Governments table
Adam Turner talks to ZoHo about giving Google a run for their money
Lidija Davis teaches us how to Digg properly
and Downloads on the Up as CD sales slump
[ Mon, 26 May 2008 23:00:20 +1000 ]
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