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<description>This channel covers discussions about new technologies and other topics related to the world of Virtual     Instrumentation.
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<title>NIWeek 2007 Executive Editor Event</title>
<itunes:author>NI Executives</itunes:author>
<description>Q&#38;A for editors with NI executives; moderated by John Graff with Dr. T, Jeff K, Tim Dehne, and Mike Santori on the panel.</description>

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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

<itunes:duration>17:23</itunes:duration>
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<title>NIWeek 2007 Editor Q and A</title>
<itunes:author>Chris Anderson</itunes:author>
<description>Immediately following the keynote presentation on Thursday; Chris Anderson went to the press room where editors could ask him questions.</description>

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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>44:38</itunes:duration>
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<title>How to Start an Active User Group</title>
<itunes:author>Larry Goga and Robert Anderson</itunes:author>
<description>Learn how to establish your own strong, active LabVIEW User Group – or improve your existing group, by implementing the suggestions of veteran leaders, Larry Goga and Robert Anderson.</description>

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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>17:23</itunes:duration>
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<title>How an active user group can benefit the members</title>
<itunes:author>Chris Clark</itunes:author>

<description>Listen to a current LabVIEW user group member candidly share about both positive and negative user group experiences.</description>

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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>10:31</itunes:duration>
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<title>Lead Customers</title>
<itunes:author>Patricia Seybold</itunes:author>

<description>Patricia Seybold coined the phrase &quot;Lead Customers&quot; in her new book entitled &quot;Outside in Innovation&quot; in which she describes how companies can leverage the knowledge of the lead customers in building their products.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>28:32</itunes:duration>
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<ni:link url="http://emertech.blogspot.com/2006/10/outside-innovationpatricia-seybolds.html" title="Outside Innovation—Patricia Seybold’s Take on Lead Users" />

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<title>Signal Processing Analysis and Math</title>
<itunes:author>Shawn McCaslin</itunes:author>
<description>Learn about MathScript, the textual math component of LabVIEW and other new and improved LabVIEW 8.20 features related to Signal Processing, Analysis, and Math in this discussion with Sam Shearman and Shawn McCaslin senior LabVIEW managers.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>12:56</itunes:duration>

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<title>LabVIEW: Past, Present, Future</title>
<itunes:author>Jeff Kodosky</itunes:author>
<description>Jeff Kodosky, co-inventor of LabVIEW, closes NIWeek 2006 in a keynote address covering the evolution of LabVIEW, outlining how it has grown from an inspirational, proof-of-concept prototype 20 years ago to a highly productive tool for designing and building measurement and control systems today.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>11:24</itunes:duration>

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<title>Customer Account of Test Data Mgmt.</title>
<itunes:author>Jim West (Summitek Instruments)</itunes:author>
<description>Listen to Jim West of Summitek Instruments – a leading supplier of intelligent instruments for RF and test and measurement, talk about providing customers with a better way to find historical test data and reproduce test results.  Jim elaborates on how adopting NI TDM components provides his customers with a better way to find and analyze data.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Leveraging Technology to Make a Difference</title>
<itunes:author>Tim Dehne</itunes:author>

<description>Tim Dehne, National Instruments senior vice president of R&amp;D, discusses how virtual instrumentation has leveraged generally available technology to not only improve performance and lower costs, but also improve everyday life in this increasingly connected world. He details different types of instrument bus options as well as other new technologies and standards that are making collaborative innovation even easier and more effective.</description>

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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>16:18</itunes:duration>
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<ni:link url="http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/AE135A6B729A1545862571BD0056E777" title="Read the developer's guide white paper on making sense of competing bus technologies for instrument control" />
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<title>Q and A with NIWeek 2006 Academic Experts Panel</title>

<itunes:author>n/a</itunes:author>
<description>At NIWeek 2006, academic experts participated in a town-hall style panel discussion, addressing issues facing engineering education. Panel members included: Dr. Ben Streetman, dean of the University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering; Dr. Leah Jamieson, dean of the Purdue University College of Engineering; Jens Maibom, vice president of LEGO Education; and Mary Wells, senior program officer of Texas-STEM, Texas High School Project.</description>

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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>39:12</itunes:duration>
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<ni:link url="http://www.ni.com/academic/" title="Learn more about National Instruments academic initiatives and support for engineering education" />
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<title>NI LabVIEW Decades of Innovations</title>
<itunes:author>Dr. James Truchard</itunes:author>
<description>Listen as Dr. James Truchard, president, CEO, and cofounder of National Instruments, outlines the progression of National Instruments innovations, starting with a focus on instrument interfaces like GPIB, and expanding with NI software and hardware such as LabVIEW and data acquisition, and, more recently, extending into system products including PXI, Compact FieldPoint, and CompactRIO.</description>

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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>10:01</itunes:duration>
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<title>OO Programming in LabVIEW</title>

<itunes:author>Cristina Rogers</itunes:author>
<description>Listen to a LabVIEW developer&apos;s perspective on object-oriented development in LabVIEW. Christina Rogers, a senior software engineer on the LabVIEW R&amp;D team, discusses the use of object-oriented programming with the new features introduced in LabVIEW 8.20.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>6:58</itunes:duration>

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<ni:link url="http://www.ni.com/labview/upgrade" title="More LabVIEW 8.20 features" />
<ni:link url="http://www.ni.com/swf/demos/us/labview/lv_oop/" title="Developing Object-Oriented Programming Applications in LabVIEW" />
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<title>20 Years of LabVIEW Innovation</title>
<itunes:author>Steve Rogers</itunes:author>
<description>Listen to Steve Rogers, Software Chief Architect in LabVIEW R&amp;D, discuss the development of LabVIEW over the last 20 years. Steve talks about the early development challenges, technology changes over the years, and the most significant LabVIEW innovations.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>16:55</itunes:duration>
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<title>Intro to dual- and multi-core technology</title>
<itunes:author>Hugo Andrade, Jeff Kennedy</itunes:author>
<description>In this podcast, the two architecture experts, Hugo Andrade and Jeff Kennedy, discuss the basics of dual-core chips and how a multi-core system will benefit you as a consumer and as an engineer. Are there anything to be aware of and what will the future bring?</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>17:51</itunes:duration>

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<title>DAQ technologies - USB Signal Streaming</title>
<itunes:author>Andrew Moch, Chris Rake</itunes:author>
<description>In this podcast, the expert in architectures, Andrew Moch, and the portable DAQ expert, Chris Rake, discuss the details of USB Signal Streaming technology that is currently used in the CompactDAQ and USB M Series DAQ products. The history of USB will also be discussed to explain the performance increase and general benefits of USB Signal Streaming.</description>

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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>29:15</itunes:duration>

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<ni:link url="http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/777FFB01724D96C28625715D007665AD" title="NI Signal-Streaming Technology Takes Data Acquisition to New Heights" />
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<ni:link url="http://digital.ni.com/worldwide/bwcontent.nsf/websearch/f4b991b7942b0dea8625713000544716" title="NI Releases Industry’s Highest Performance USB Multifunction Data Acquisition Devices" />
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<title>Safety and Isolation</title>

<itunes:author>Dave Lohbeck</itunes:author>
<description>Discussion about isolation and safety when selecting instrumentation. Learn how to avoid frying your new instrumentation hardware by applying too much voltage, and how to understand isolation specifications.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

<itunes:duration>13:04</itunes:duration>
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<ni:link url="http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/webcategories/3694C148B068446886256E4A007CAEE9" title="Product Safety and EMC Tutorials" />
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<ni:link url="http://www.edn.com/contents/images/454635.pdf" title="Safety isolation protects users and electronic instruments (EDN)" />

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<title>What is Embedded?</title>
<itunes:author>Joel Sumner</itunes:author>
<description>In this episode, Joel Sumner discusses Embedded technology and answers the question &quot;What is Embedded?&quot;  Learn about embedded development versus desktop development, the interaction of Linux, and how K-12 students become embedded programmers through Lego Mindstorms.</description>

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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

<itunes:duration>16:58</itunes:duration>
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<ni:link url="http://www.ni.com/embedded/" title="NI Embedded System Design Tools" />
<ni:link url="http://ideasinwiring.blogspot.com/" title="Ideas in Writing : Joel Sumner's Blog" />
<ni:link url="http://www.ni.com/company/education/mindstorms.htm" title="LEGO MINDSTORMS, Powered by NI LabVIEW" />
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<title>PCI Express Architecture Overview</title>
<itunes:author>Tim Fountain</itunes:author>

<description>In this podcast, Tim Fountain who's a product strategist at National Instruments talks about the PCI Express technology, how it evolved and how it compares with other common bus technologies. Tim also covers common benefits of PCI Express, both for consumers and for engineers.</description>
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<guid>http://ftp.ni.com/pub/podcasts/virtual_inst_tech/pci_express.mp3</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>19:55</itunes:duration>
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<title>Microsoft Vista Overview</title>
<itunes:author>Brian Tyler</itunes:author>

<description>In this podcast, Brian Tyler of National Instruments R&amp;D dicusses Windows Vista, the next version of the Microsoft Windows operating system.  Brian discusses the major new features in Vista, the relationship between the Microsoft .NET technology and Vista, and how it will affect you as a PC consumer.</description>

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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>13:26</itunes:duration>
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<ni:link url="http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/EA2D7ABC6B2AA03C8625712A007B1125" title="On the Verge of Microsoft Windows Vista" />
<ni:link url="http://www.microsoft.com/vista/" title="Microsoft’s Windows Vista Homepage" />
<ni:link url="http://detritus.blogs.com/lycangeek/" title="And Now a Word from Brian Tyler" />
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<title>LabVIEW Architecture</title>

<itunes:author>Kennon Cotton, Greg Falcon, Stephen Mercer</itunes:author>
<description>In this podcast, the three LabVIEW developers Kennon Cotton, Greg Falcon and Stephen Mercer discuss how they use certain tips and techniques to improve their development of VIs. Many aspects of the development process are covered including style guidelines, modular code, object oriented code, state machines, source code control and much more.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>28:54</itunes:duration>
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<ni:link url="http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/BBE67528EBCA22B7862570700077EBB9" title="LabVIEW Architecture" />
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