Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer on Tesla

Summary
The project code-named TESLA in Microsoft Research is being spearheaded by Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer. LINQ is the first technology aimed at democratizing the Internet coming from Microsoft. From Monoids to LINQ, Brian and Erik provide insight into the future of the .NET Framework languages at Microsoft and how they plan to change the Cloud as we know it today.

Bio
Dr. Brian Beckman and Dr. Erik Meijer are both architects in the SQL Server at Microsoft where amongst many other things, they works with the C# and VB.NET teams on the design of data integration in programming languages. Both are accomplished writers in computer science and academia currently working as a team in in Microsoft Research and Development.