Today is Public Day, when a select group of partners, customers, and media get an opportunity to view a few dozen of the demos on display during TechFest 2009. The day's events began promptly at 10 a.m. with introductory remarks from Rick Rashid , senior vice president of Microsoft Research, and...
After Rashid's keynote, Craig Mundie , Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, engaged in a freewheeling technology discussion with Alan Alda , famed television and movie star and host of PBS' Scientific American Frontiers . The pair sat informally, and after a brief intro in which...