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R&D And The Magic Ampersand

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) – According to Wikipedia, the lowly ampersand or “&” is a logogram representing the conjunction word “and” using ”a ligature of the letters in et,” which is of course the Latin word for “and.” In my line of work I most frequently encounter the ampersand in the common phrase “R&D” for research ... Read more »
Academia, Augmented Reality, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Next at Microsoft, Quantum Computing, Real Impact, Shepherds Pi, Social Software
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Collaborating Inside Virtual Environments

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) – While everything may be “going mobile” in the not-so-distant future, that doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone will be carrying mobile devices as we know them today. Here, I discuss a different future path from what is typically portrayed as a world of always-connected handheld mobile devices - an alternative but probable future in ... Read more »
Academia, Augmented Reality, Gadgets and Mobile, Gaming, Shepherds Pi, Virtual Reality
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Adding The Human Component To Computing

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) – A lot of people don’t realize that Microsoft spends billions of dollars a year on research and development, with laboratories near Seattle, Boston, and around the world. Most of the time, the researchers are huddled together and working hard in private, but every once in a while they come out to ... Read more »
Augmented Reality, Defense, Gadgets and Mobile, Government, Shepherds Pi, Why Microsoft
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