Every year my group puts on Microsoft Research Techfest, a two-day event in which we bring our researchers from all of our labs to Redmond and roll out our latest and greatest stuff to the rest of the company. About 150 different demos in booths, and 25 lectures on a variety of topics. While it is mostly a confidential event, we manage to select a handful of demos and open them up to some reporters -- so you'll be seeing some press coverage over the next couple of days on that.
It's great fun; we had about 3400 Microsoft employees come through today. Including Bill Gates, who looked like a kid in a candy shop. The excitement is palpable -- Microsoft is full of people who are deeply passionate about technology and the opportunity to go do great things for people. Just ask Scoble -- he was there.
I did about a half-dozen press interviews today. Combine that with a cold that my daughter very generously gave me earlier this week, and I have now officially lost my voice. But it was a great day anyway. Hopefully tomorrow will go just as well...
I should be in bed. Instead, I'm staying up to watch Bill Gates on the Charlie Rose show, taped last week when we were in Boston on the university tour.
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