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Bob Familiar is the Director of Technical Evangelism for Microsoft DPE East Region. The Technical Evangelism team works with students, professional developers and IT pros to help them learn, adopt and use the Microsoft developer platform to design and build the next generation of apps for Windows 8, Windows Phone and Windows Azure and use Windows server 2012 to build, deploy and manage private and public cloud infrastructure.
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Tuskegee’s Lee Burge Takes Engineering Program to New Heights
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Yvette Caslin at RollingOut.com interviewed Dean Lee Burge of Tuskegee University on his adoption of Imainge CUp for the Ethics in Engineering Course. The next generation of technology leaders will graduate from Tuskegee University ’s engineering program...
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Student Creates NYC Metro App for Windows Phone 7
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Casey Chan writes on Gizmodo Windows Phone 7, quietly a great looking platform, has a new NYC subway map application called NYC Transit available. It actually uses a revamped map layout, customized subway line views, subway locator and updated service...
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Intel TechDays–Visual Studio and Intel Parallel Studio
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This free one-day course, conducted by Intel and Microsoft, gives Windows* C++ developers a great opportunity to see live demos and learn about threading applications for multicore platforms. Agenda Register… Technorati Tags: Intel , Microsoft , Parallel...
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Magical Imagine Cup Tour
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Robert Youngjohns , President of Microsoft North America, recently visited New York City and Cambridge MA to meet with some of the top Imagine Cup competitors from NYU , MIT , Harvard , CCSU , University of Pennsylvania , UCLA Anderson , University of...
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Steve Ballmer + Imagine Cup + Governor of PA = BEST DAY EVER!
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Lindsay Lindstrom , Academic Developer Evangelist, has a recap of an amazing day that some of the students she works with from Drexel and Penn Stat had interacting with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and PA Governor Corbett… Yesterday, Steve Ballmer, CEO...
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Realizing Your Dreams: Imagine Cup
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On March 7th, 2011, Tuskegee University hosted 200 high school students from Booker T. Washington High School and Notasulga High School . These students were on campus to hear about Imagine Cup, Kodu, Small Basic but mire importantly to hear directly...
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Get your app on! Students learn XNA and Silverlight Gaming at Pace Game Camp
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100 students from 20 different colleges and high schools in the New York area got together at Pace University to hear Andrew Parsons and Bob Familiar lecture on XNA and Silverlight programming for Windows, XBox and Windows Phone . They are competing for...
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It’s Official: Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011
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The Official Microsoft Blog has reported that Microsoft will release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows SDK this spring The Kinect for Windows SDK is being developed and released by Microsoft Research (MSR) in collaboration with IEB. It will be available...
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Imagine Cup Featured on .NET Rocks
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Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson about getting students interested in programming. The conversation spans over use of computers in schools, teaching fundamental uses of computers, actual programming, and looking beyond. Andrew...
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Get Inspired: Take a look at these Student Game Submissions from Imagine Cup 2010
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Andrew Parsons , Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist in NY, has catalogued some of the top game submissions from Imagine Cup 2010. If you are a student and are working on your game submission for Imagine Cup 2011 , this is a great resource to see...
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Windows Phone 7 and XBox 360 Game Camps in NY
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Andrew Parsons , Academic Developer Evangelist for Microsoft based in NY, is holding 2-day events for students where they can learn how to develop their own game for XBox 360 and Windows Phone 7 using XNA. The first will be held in...
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Got Game: How to Keep Girls Interested in Computer Science
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Greta article over on EduTopia about getting high school girls interested in technology. When the regular school day ends at Maryland's Springbrook High School , the fun begins in earnest for girls who are part of an after-school club that focuses on...
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Tufts University XNA Gaming Projects Showcased on App Hub
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Ming Chow, a professor at Tufts University , chatted with us about the course he teaches using XNA Game Studio, and chats about his class, the goals, and what he hopes students get out of it. We also chat with a group of his students who competed in Imagine...
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Curious about Windows Phone 7–Check out this extensive review
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Greg Kumparak has written an extensive review over at MobileCrunch about Windows Phone 7 with lots of pictures and details on how the phone functions. Read it… Technorati Tags: Windows Phone 7 , MobileCrunch , WP7
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Mayor Bloomberg, Steve Ballmer announce Imagine Cup 2011
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The International finals of Imagine Cup 2011 will be held in NYC in July 2011. Today Mayor Bloomberg and Steve Ballmer announced the event. Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup , Ballmer , Bloomberg
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New York City's government is moving to Microsoft's cloud
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From the article… A $20 million deal between the Bloomberg administration and the Redmond, Wash., computing giant announced Wednesday that it will consolidate software and hardware operated by individual agencies onto Internet-based computer “clouds....
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Cloud Storage by David Platt
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David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This third lecture covers all the various cloud storage potions, what is provided by the top cloud...
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Cloud Application Architecture Patterns by David Platt
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David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This second lecture introduces distributed computing concepts and a set of application architecture...
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Introduction to Cloud Computing by David Platt
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David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This first lecture provides an introduction to Cloud Computing and covers the historical background...
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Ideas for Citizen-facing Phone Apps
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A forum for posting application ideas has been launched… Phones are becoming ubiquitous and are powerful application delivery platforms. Governments have a wealth of open data and services that citizens can benefit from. This forum is for citizens to...
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Windows Phone apps look good, different than iPhone's
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Wilson Rothman writes on Technolog @ MSNBC …When I skimmed through [ the Windows Phone 7 Apps ], I got a familiar feeling: The Bibles, the tip calculators, the flashlights, the fart makers, the bus trackers, all of the hallmarks of the iPhone App Store...
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Microsoft, Facebook unveil deeper social search on Bing
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Microsoft's Qi Lu, president of Microsoft Online Services, and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a press conference at Microsoft's Silicon Valley headquarters to announce an extension of a long-running partnership...
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Why Windows Phone 7 Makes Sense for MIS Programs
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Dr. James Parrish write: Windows Phone 7 was released yesterday to the world to some rave reviews . So what? Mobile platforms have been around for the past few years and Apple and Google have a pretty strong foothold in the market. Why...
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Windows Phone 7 – It’s here!
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Top Curriculum Downloads from Microsoft Faculty Connection
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Below are the top downloads from our Faculty Connection site in September. It is clear that XNA is a great topic for getting students interesting in software development. With XNA now also a development option for Windows Phone 7 , the demand will only...
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