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ABSTRACT: Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 enables hobbyists, academics and commercial developers to create robotics applications targeting entertainment, educational, home, commercial, or industrial segments.
This presentation specifically focuses on the Microsoft Visual Programming Language in conjunction with Robotics Studio.
Microsoft Visual Programming Language (VPL) is an application development environment designed on a graphical dataflow-based programming mode. Rather than series of imperative commands sequentially executed, a dataflow program is more like a series of workers on an assembly line who do their assigned task as the materials arrive. As a result, VPL is well suited to programming a variety of concurrent or distributed processing scenarios.
VPL is targeted for beginning programmers with a basic understanding of concepts like variables and logic. However, VPL is not limited to novices. The compositional nature of the programming language appeals to more advanced programmers for rapid prototyping or code development. In addition, while its toolbox is tailored developing robot applications, the underlying architecture can be applied to other applications. As a result, VPL may appeal to a wide audience of users including students, enthusiasts/hobbyists, as well as professional programmers.
BIO: Lance Larsen ( www.lancelarsen.com )
Lance is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable independent consultant focusing on the latest Microsoft technologies. Lance balances his career, hobbies ( such as Robotics ) and his family life, including raising his two beautiful and way too smart for his own good, 5 and 8 year old daughters.
Always fascinated with Robotics, this has driven him educationally to get his bachelors in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and followed that up with a Masters in Computer Science ( with a focus in Artificial Intelligence ).
Combining both his educational background with Microsoft's Robotic Studio minimally gives him the ability to realize his ambitions to create an unstoppable robotic hoard to take over the world…. errr… sorry was that my outside voice again?