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TED2012 Audition

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:15:15 -0700

My audition: [url="assets/Uploads/TED2012Audition.mov"]TED2012 Video Audition[/url] Additional audio and video links of me presenting (requested for the TED2012 Full Spectrum audition: http://www.virtualmondayminute.com/assets/Uploads/vmm003.mov http://www.virtualmondayminute.com/assets/Uploads/vmm000r.mov [url="http://sneetches.net/scott/Scott-on-WLBK.mp3"]Scott on WLBK (audio only)[/url] [url="http://www.androiddreams.net/files/CS597-sarmstr2-20090501-presentation.mov"]Self-migration research project presentation[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20060918-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20060918[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20060925-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20060925[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061002-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061002[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061009-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061009[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061016-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061016[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061023-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061023[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061030-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061030[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061106-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061106[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061113-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061113[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061127-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061127[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061204-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061204[/url] [url="rtsp://mediaserver.kishwaukeecollege.edu:7070/kishconnect/MondayMinute20061218-large.mov"]KishConnect Monday Minute 20061218[/url]

Relaunch

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:38:19 -0700

We're relaunching in the very near future. More, soon!

Welcome and Enjoy

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:34:46 -0800

Welcome and enjoy. This is the initial launch of the site and there are still several technical tweaks in progress, most importantly, embedded videos (probably Flash or YouTube). I'm also working on a virtual agreement with a digital entity so that I don't have to spend as much time in front of the camera. The virtual dude in the first video (currently nameless) was generated using Alice from CMU ([url]http://www.alice.org/[/url]), but I'll play with some other tools in the future until I find the right entity to represent the Virtual Monday Minute.

Welcome to the VMM

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:30:52 -0800

The Welcome video in Quicktime mov format with a real person: [url="assets/Uploads/vmm000r.mov"]Welcome to the VMM (human)[/url] ...and in mov format with a virtual person: [url="assets/Uploads/vmm000v.mov"]Welcome to the VMM (virtual)[/url] Text of the video for anyone who is hearing impaired, without speakers or otherwise can't hear the video: Welcome to the first-ever Virtual Monday Minute, or VMM. Virtualization in computer systems is a logical and natural evolution from hardware-based systems to software-based systems. Though virtualization in computer systems has been in production use since the 1960s, recent research and development in virtualization have expanded our conceptual understanding of computational systems. Concisely defined, a virtual machine monitor is a layer in a computer system that manages the resources in the layer below while presenting an abstraction of that layer to a virtual machine at the layer above. This definition is the essence of virtualization, and it helps emphasize the very powerful concept that hardware and software are logically equivalent. Once you free yourself from the confines of the physical machine, you will discover new possibilities in the world of virtualization. Welcome to the VMM.

Launch Date: January 4, 2010

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:13:03 -0800

[url="assets/Uploads/TestPattern.mov"]Test Pattern[/url]

VM Isolation

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:06:07 -0800

Welcome back to the Virtual Monday Minute. Today's topic is [url="assets/Uploads/vmm003.mov"]Virtual Machine isolation[/url]--the ability of a host VMM to present each VM its own view of hardware resources, separate from any other VM. A VMM presents a view of lower-layer resources to the VM or VMs at the layer above. By controlling what resources a guest VM can see, a VMM isolates the VMs from each other. This makes it possible for a VM to function as a single machine, manage its own resources, albeit virtualized, and not worry about resource conflicts with any other VMs hosted by the same VMM. They are isolated from each other and aren't aware that they are sharing hardware with each other. Whether you have 2 VMs or 20 on a single VMM layer, they know only the resources that they are presented, and they aren't aware that they are sharing the same physical hardware at the layer beneath the VMM. This is a very powerful feature of virtualization.