April 2006 - Posts

Microsoft Academic Days on Databases & Operating Systems (Toronto)
26 April 06 10:02 AM

Microsoft Academic Days is a conference series for post-secondary researchers & educators. Academic Days on Databases & Operating Systems will take place in Toronto from May 23-25th. The conference will host approximately 100 top researchers from Read More...

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Teachers: Visual Studio Express is Free
20 April 06 10:26 AM

My colleague over in the Visual Studio Express team, Dan Fernandez, has a great blog on the announcement that Visual Studio Express is now completely free! http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2006/04/19/579109.aspx Check it out! Read More...

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More Resources for Computer Science Teachers
18 April 06 03:39 PM

I got this from a reader of my previous post . I thought many of you would be interested: ---------------------- http://spaces.msn.com/bhandler/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!730.entry Read More...

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Resources for Computer Science Teachers
18 April 06 12:27 PM

One of the core aspects of my job is to help Canadian Computer Science teachers get access to the resources they need from Microsoft. This is harder than you might think. Not because we don't have resources for teachers (on the contrary), but trying to Read More...

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Speaking at ECOO
10 April 06 09:45 PM

On May 4th, I'll be speaking at the annual ECOO (Educational Computing Organization of Ontario) conference. Microsoft has sponsored the event every year and I've been a big fan of the conference. Unfortunately this year we had to scale back our sponsorship Read More...

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Students & Technology in Canada
05 April 06 07:38 PM

So the other half of my job is still focused on the student community in Canada (we also call it the Academic community). In any case, I am always trying to figure out how to better understand the Canadian student community and what they think about technology. Read More...

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Canadian Architect Community
05 April 06 07:31 PM

My new job at Microsoft Canada is Audience Manager for the Canadian Architect community. It's a pretty cool job and to be completely honest, there's a lot to do but I have an incredible team to work with. For example, we have 3 individuals (Carol Roy, Read More...

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