Microsoft Surface being used to coordinate Super Bowl security

If you've been watching the news this week, you might have caught NFL security VP Milton Ahlerich saying that Raymond James Stadium in Tampa will be "one the safest locations you can possibly be" during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and it looks like Microsoft Surface will be a big reason why: it's being used to coordinate security forces around the site. It's seriously slick -- maps are integrated with planning and voice communications software so the field commanders can immediately assess incident responses and personnel deployments, with the ability to initiate radio contact directly from the interface. Definitely much cooler than zooming in and out of photos and ordering drinks, we'd say -- video after the break.

[Dead Man Inc Posted Jan 30th 2009 1:53AM]

When I first looked at the photo I thought its one of those CPU waffle designs....

[Mithinco Posted Jan 30th 2009 1:54AM]

I hope security doesn't use X's and O's to coordinate. You'd see playbook strategies all over the place!

[lordeagle Posted Jan 30th 2009 2:13PM]

FYI.. the actual video is 40mins long, and this is a "stolen" shot that Microsoft published asap on the Surface blog. The actual video is in post-prod right now... apparently the NBC clip was to be aired today on, well, the "Today Show".

To add more details than Nilay Patel is letting through, this is a "mashup", relaying on Infusion (http://www.infusion.com) expertise in "situation" management based on the Surface.

And yeah, it's definitely cooler than ordering cocktails ;)

[Dan Fruzzetti Posted Jan 30th 2009 2:29PM]

Wow, that's gotta be the most efficient way to pack in your L2 cache around your cores on that CPU. I might widen the buses on either side and perhaps stack the L1 caches on top of the cores themselves or perhaps window them so each two cores share a segment (still with one segment per core overall).

Imagine that, though: we drew our inspiration from football stadium architecture. Welcome to the 80986: the Intel Coliseum (R) Multi-Processor!

[sanriver12 Posted Jan 30th 2009 4:52PM]

yeah great video, thanks. a freaking video showing a cameraman shooting the actual thing you should have been showing....
did that make sense?

[neofolklore Posted Jan 30th 2009 8:20PM]

is that a picture of superbowl security?

brb, church.