Brian Beckman

Brian Beckman

Brian Beckman has worked on many projects at Microsoft over the last fifteen years from Research to Crypto to BizTalk to games to LINQ. Before Microsoft, Brian worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on research operating systems and radio astronomy. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University.

Articles Authored

  • TESLA: Democratizing the Cloud

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 3 - Data Programability

    In our service-oriented world, users need the same experience on any device, whether mobile phone, office PC, or Internet café. Moreover, they want the same experience any time they access applications, offline or online. For developers, this means tackling multi-tier, distributed, and concurrent programming. LINQ 1.0 radically simplified multi-tier programming with unified query and deep XML support. TESLA is a broad engineering program by the authors to extend the success of LINQ with external relationships, reshaping combinators, assisted tier-splitting, and join patterns.