This post is a retrospective on a project I was privileged to participate in during Microsofts Makefest in 2013. The team I joined decided to build a Moodcloud. What is a Moodcloud? Good question!...

The AllSeen Alliance’s AllJoyn protocol is designed to enable the “everything” in the Internet of Everything to find and talk with one another. We’ve been working with AllJoyn for a couple of reaso...

This week I’ve been in Cambridge, MA to talk about Microsoft’s IoT solutions: Intelligent Systems Services, Project Reykjavik, and Nitrogen. It was an excellent conference, wrapping up Wednesday wi...

I’m headed to the IoT 2014 conference where I’ll be talking about Microsoft’s portfolio of IoT solutions and demonstrating Nitrogen. The brief version of what I’m presenting is that Microsoft has ...

In my last blog post about Nitrogen, I showed how to get started developing with nitrogen with very little effort. To enable that blog post, I wrote a vagrant configuration that allows you to bring...

CodaLab is a project to make Machine Learning simple, reproducable, and scalable. It focuses both on “bench” science in ML and supporting competitions to enable the community to work together to fi...

My teammate, Tim Park, wrote Nitrogen. I’ve been working with it for about a month, while hacking on lots of IoT related projects. I’ve got a few bits and pieces I’ve accumulated to make working wi...

Back in May I won startup weekend as part of the People Analytics team. The experience was exhausting and energizing. Here’s a short recap: Jay Beavers, Javiar Luraschi, John Rice and I decided to...

Back in May I accepted a position on the Strategic Engagements team at Microsoft. It’s a great group of people, with cool opportunities. We are still figuring out the lay of the land, but we’re muc...

When developing map-reduce programs for Microsoft Azures Hadoop implementation, HDInsight, it’s often useful to reference data stored in azure. Here is what I’ve found works easily but wasn’t clea...