Mark Miller and Seth Juarez Go Mad with Kinect!
Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller and Seth Juarez about their crazy experiments with Kinect. The boys discuss how they are building an interface with Kinect to do programming with Visual Studio 2010. A large part of this conversation ends up diving deep into the relative merits of machine learning in systems. Are we crossing the streams? You bet!
Guests:
Mark Miller
Mark Miller is a seven-year C# Microsoft MVP, and a leading expert on user interface design. He's the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and he streams live C# coding & design on Twitch.tv/CodeRushed. Mark has been creating tools for software developers for over four decades.
Seth Juarez
Seth Juarez holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science where his field of research was Artificial Intelligence, specifically in the realm of Machine Learning. Seth is an Evangelist for Microsoft and devotes the majority of his time making videos for Channel 9. When he is not working in that area, Seth devotes his time to an open source Machine Learning Library, specifically for .NET, intended to simplify the use of popular machine learning models, as well as complex statistics and linear algebra.
Links:
- Kinect Hacks http://www.kinecthacks.com/
- Machine Learning defined http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
- NPR Science Friday Transcript: How the Kinect tracks your moves http://www.npr.org/2010/11/19/131447076/how-the-x-box-kinect-tracks-your-moves