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| Seminar: |
Microsoft .NET |
| Lecturer(s): |
David Platt |
| Overview: |
The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.
The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.
The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).
In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
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| Seminar Topics: |
- The .NET Framework
- Problems of distributed computing world and of current distributed programming environments
- Architecture and components of Microsoft .NET.
- Object-oriented programming features of .NET
- ASP.NET
- Generating and publishing an ASP.NET project in Visual Studio
- Control-based programming of .ASPX pages
- Security of ASP.NET applications
- Web Services
- Using XML and HTTP as a common denominator.
- .NET object accessible through Web protocols
- HTTP GET, HTTP POST, and SOAP
- Windows Forms and ADO.NET
- Writing rich user interfaces using the .NET Framework
- Accessing databases in the .NET Framework.
- Serializing data to and from XML.
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| Lecturer(s) Biography: |
David S. Platt is the President of Rolling Thunder Computing. His latest book, Introducing Microsoft .NET from Microsoft Press is Microsoft's lead book on that topic. It is currently outselling Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon on amazon.com, which tells you what kind of geeks buy their books there. He taught computer science at Harvard University for 9 years. He currently teaches .NET and XML at public seminars and in-house at companies all over the world. He publishes "ThunderClap", a quarterly newsletter on .NET development, available free from his Web site, www.rollthunder.com. He is also the author of many articles on .NET and COM in MSDN Magazine. "He's the only guy I've ever known that can actually make an article on COM's apartment threading model funny," says one client. |
| Location: |
MIT room 34-101, Edgerton Hall |
| Date: |
Saturday, 11/17/2001 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Pricing: |
Advanced Registration Price: $80.00 Good until Wednesday, 11/07/2001
Regular Price: $90.00 |
| Session Chair: |
Jay Conne |
Directions: |
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| Books: |
| Title: | Introducing Microsoft .NET |
| Author(s): | David Platt, Keith Ballinger |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Press |
| List price: | $29.95 |
| PDS price: | $20.00 |
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