Multitouch
Multitouch is one of the most exciting technologies on the cusp of breaking into the main stream. It seems that every major hardware company has serious R&D going and every software platform manufacturer is scrambling to pull the elements into their languages and apis. Here are a few interesting videos and articles that give a good flavor of things to come.
Virtual autopsy via multitouch
Adobe's initiative via the almighty TED
A good rundown of issues and initiative from 10/GUI
A demo of MTJ4, a Java Based Multitouch API
... and Tom Cruise, our favorite Scientologist, from Minority Report
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Low level Windows 7 kernel architecture interview with Arun Kishan
In my recent wanderings I came across this msdn interview with kernel engineer Arun Kishan covering his redesign of the way the new Windows 7 kernel handles spinning off multiple processes. Up until recently, there was a mechanism known as a spin lock in place that checked for permissions and resources for a process that wanted launching. The problem with this was that with the explosion in cpu cores comes an explosion in the multithreading capacities of hardware. The singular spin lock model just can't keep up. So if you're itching to know how Kishan solved this problem and you're willing to put your hour where your mouth is - or if you just love tech discussion involving whiteboard notes and diagrams - this video is for you!