Important Dates
- Abstract Submission
- [Extended]
- June 25, 2009, 11:59 PM EST
- Full Paper Submission
- [Extended]
- July 2, 2009, 11:59 PM EST
- Notification of Acceptance
- Aug. 31, 2009
- Camera-Ready Copy
- Sept. 13, 2009
- Conference Date
- Nov. 4-6, 2009
Chairs
Corporate Sponsors
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Gur Kimchi
MSN and Microsoft Virtual Earth
Microsoft Corporation
History and Lessons from Microsoft Virtual Earth
Thursday, Nov 5, 9:15-10:15
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Abstract:
Microsoft Virtual Earth (the technology behind Bing Maps) is one of
the world's largest geospatial services, with unique
automatically-generated data and support for some of the Internet's
highest transaction rates of any application category.
A review is provided of the technical history of Virtual Earth and of
a few of the unique lessons learned along the way of building this
large-scale service, from the Datacenter, to the Hardware, Software,
Algorithms, and the overall engineering approach.
Biography: Gur Kimchi is the Partner Development Manager for MSN's core platform
team, supporting 500M users in 50 countries. Previously he was
Architect for Microsoft's Virtual Earth, Local Search and Mobile
Search efforts (Now Bing Maps) where he managed the architecture
across Software, SDK/Platform, Hardware, Datacenters and
TCO/Performance/Utilization. Prior to Virtual Earth, he was Tech
Lead for RTC/LCS managing the server side of Live Communications
Server (now UC) 2003, 2005 and Federation Pack. At the time he
worked with Yahoo and AOL on the Presence/IM/VoIP public federation
agreement connecting over 500M consumers to each other and to
enterprise customers running LCS/UC. Prior to joining Microsoft he
was a serial entrepreneur involved in starting 5 companies as Chief
Architect, CTO/COO or EIR. The longest tenure prior to Microsoft was
with VocalTec communications, the inventor of VoIP between 1995 and
2002, where he was Development Manager and Chief Architect and helped
take the company public.
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