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Podcast: Over The Edge
Episode: The Genesis of Edge Computing with Victor Bahl, Technical Fellow at Microsoft Research
Description: Today’s episode features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Victor Bahl, Technical Fellow and Director of Mobility & Networking at Microsoft Research, and one of the fathers of Edge Computing. Across a 23-year career at Microsoft Research, Victor has helped shape Microsoft’s long-term strategy through research, industry partnerships, and associated policy engagement with governments and research institutions around the world. His seminal 2009 paper titled “The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing” spawned the vision for what we now call Edge. In this interview, Victor shares the story behind the genesis of that paper, and his ex...