In a special videoCast, Lance McCarthy of Progress Software dives deep into MCP, not only explaining what it is for and how it works, but demonstrating, in code, how it is done.
MCP (Model, Context, Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI models (read copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) connect to external tools. These tools can be databases, code you write, code you connect to, other AIs, etc. etc. It is the universal API for Agents.
Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses.
Liberty is a Senior AI Engineer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 21 year Microsoft MVP.
