Microsoft's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash Player has an official name--Silverlight--and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the Web.
On Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft is expected to launch Silverlight, a Web browser plug-in for playing media files and displaying interactive Web applications.
The company intends to release a beta of Silverlight, formerly called Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), at the Mix07 conference for designers and Web developers in Las Vegas later this month.
Along with the public launch of Silverlight, Microsoft plans to announce a number of media and advertising agency partners that have shown interest in using the software. Partners include Major League Baseball, online video broadcaster Brightcove, Netflix and Akamai Technologies.
Silverlight, which has been under development for at least two years, is a player that can display Web applications on both Windows and the Mac in Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari. The download of the player will be less than 2 megabytes.
Like Flash, it has accompanying development tools for both designers and software developers.
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Choose the API that’s Right for You
You don’t need to learn a new programming language to integrate the D-Wave quantum computer with your application. The DQC software platform will provide standard web-service APIs that support several modeling, optimization and domain-specific languages. These include SQL, AMPL and GAMS. These languages have the advantage of being declarative, expressive and familiar to a wide community of users.
High-level web-service APIs include Low-level APIs support these primitive problem types
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Finalmente, se ponen al servicio de la comunidad, solicitando de quien piense que puede colaborar con ellos una "via de Partnership":
Partnership Opportunities with D-Wave
D-Wave currently has DQC hardware and software available that lets you build pilot applications leveraging quantum-computing technology. We are rapidly scaling the size of the quantum solver. D-Wave is now accepting a limited number of development partners who can help us drive additional requirements for applications that would benefit from the ability to solve computationally difficult problems efficiently. We encourage those who wish to benefit from accelerated discrete-optimization and search capabilities to contact D-Wave Systems Inc. at busdev@dwavesys.com.
Y se decía que tardarían 20 años en conseguirlo...)