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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:16 PM

Interesting Links – 15 July 2008

I am struggling to catch up from my vacation. One of the trailing points in my activity is blogging – both reading and writing. I’ve got over 500 blog posts (mostly in the education category – aren’t you all on vacation?) to read. But I’ve come up with
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Friday, July 04, 2008 12:09 PM

Imagine Cup – Student Environment & Technology Competition

The 2008 Imagine Cup finals is currently being held in Paris France. This international competition involves tens of thousands of university students around the world. This year’s theme is "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment."
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:28 AM

Pitching Your Idea - An Interview About Presentations

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/29/pitching-your-idea.aspx'; Perry Lowe, a marketing professor at Bentley College and Philip DesAutels , were at the recent US Imagine Cup finals giving some presentations to the competitors.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:16 AM

Getting A Job - The Blizzard Edition

This week Clint posted his interview with John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment over at Channel 8. The "money line" in the interview is something like "you know that math you think you'll never need? Well you're going to need it." John keeps his college
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:29 AM

So You Want A Job in the Software Industry

Clint Rutkas has been doing a lot of interviewing lately. At a number of events he has been interviewing software professionals about what it takes and what people need to know to prepare for a career in the software industry. His most recent interview
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:50 AM

DreamSpark - Microsoft Gives Software to Students for Academic Use

OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The official press release is here BTW) So I'm kind of late to the party already. Channel 8 is going to be a key source
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Friday, February 15, 2008 11:35 AM

An Operating System You Can Play With in C#

The contributors over at Channel 8, the web community for students interested in computer technology, are really turning us some interesting things. Recently there was a student interview with Bill Gates and then the other day I read about Cosmos . Cosmos
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Monday, February 11, 2008 4:15 PM

Alfred On Channel 8

Just in case you wondered what I looked and sounded like, I am in a brief video at Channel 8 right now. This was shot at a wrap up party for members of Microsoft's worldwide academic team so the background noise is a little different from the normal interview
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:42 PM

Top December Posts

Well I must confess that I am struggling to get back into the whole "doing work" thing after taking the last 10 or so days off. It's a good thing I had posted some posts to appear during the break or some of your would wonder if I'd fallen off the face
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:05 AM

Max Builds a PC

My friend Max is building a PC from parts. Over at Channel 8 ( First post in the series here ) he's looking for recommendations and suggestions about parts. Looks like a good conversation is taking place already but there is always room for more. Oh by
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:11 AM

WiiMote (Wii game controller) and Microsoft Robotics Studio

I've written before about the Wii controller with links to software that allows a programmer to use a WiiMote with a Windows computer over at Coding 4 Fun . (Note that the code has been updated since that original post.) The latest cool thing I have seen
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:47 AM

Latest Imagine Cup News on Channel 8

I see over on Channel 8 that they have added a more team interviews with various teams who have made it to Korea for the finals. They also have some video from the first day of the finals event itself. Jump over to Channel 8 and take a look . A lot of
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