The new Xbox Adaptive Joystick is designed as a companion for Xbox controllers. You can plug directly into your console or PC and customize or adapt your experience with button remapping in software and even 3D print your own shapes and sticks for a custom experience. Microsoft is launching a new $29.99 Xbox Adaptive Joystick early next year with a focus on players with limited mobility. Scott talks to Xbox Accessibility Expert Kaitlyn Jones in this episode!

• https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adaptive-joystick

The Crimson Diamond is a mystery adventure video game developed and published by Julia Minamata for the PC. The game features a text parser, requiring players to solve a mystery through inputting instructions via text to the game. Solo developer Julia Minamata designed the game featuring an EGA color palette!

• https://www.thecrimsondiamond.com

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award recipient Wen-Mei Hwu, Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was recognized for pioneering and foundational contributions to the design and adoption of multiple generations of processor architectures. His fundamental and pioneering contributions have had a broad impact on three generations of processor architectures: superscalar, VLIW, and throughput-oriented manycore processors (GPUs). Other honors and recognitions include the 1999 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 2006 ISCA Most Influential Paper Award, 2014 MICRO Test-of-Time Award, and 2018 CGO Test-of-Time Award. He is the co-author, with David Kirk, of the popular textbook Programming Massively Parallel Processors.

Wen-Mei discusses the evolution of Moore’s Law and the significance of Dennard Scaling, which allowed for faster, more efficient processors without increasing chip size or power consumption. He explains how his research group’s approach to microarchitecture at the University of California, Berkeley in the 80s led to advancements such as Intel’s P6 processor. Wen-Mei and Scott discuss the early days of processors and the rise of specialized processors and new computational units. They also share their predictions about the future of computing and advancements that will be required to handle vast data sets in real time, and potential devices that would extend human capabilities.

• Wen-mei Hwu Announced as the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award Recipient

Joseph Finney is a mechanical engineer by day and a software developer by night. He talks to Scott about how being an indie developer has improved his life, taught him a ton, in how he put applications in the Apple App store, the Google play store, and the Microsoft store. Some of the apps are big and complicated come up and some of the apps are applets, but all of them serve a purpose and solve a specific problem. Joeseph lives experimenting with different ways to solve common problems and have a passion for designing software which makes computers more natural to use.

https://joefinapps.com

In this episode, Leendert van Doorn discusses the future of Snapdragon technology and its potential to revolutionize various industries. Snapdragon processors are known for their high performance and efficiency, making them a popular choice for smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Van Doorn highlights how Qualcomm is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with Snapdragon, focusing on advancements in AI, connectivity, and power efficiency. He chats with Scott about his passion for this space, and how Qualcomm Snapdragon powers the AI and more in the new Windows Copilot+ PCs!

• https://developer.qualcomm.com/

Michael Washington doesn't want AI to write the Great American novel, he wants YOU to write the Great American novel faster and easier. He's created AIStoryBuilders To help you break your stories down into timelines, locations, and characters. He sits down with Scott to talk about how he wrote this application, where retrieval augmented generation comes in, and how he wrote it with web assembly in mind to avoid having to deal with app stores while still having a mobile version.

• https://aistorybuilders.com/
• https://documentation.aistorybuilders.com/