July 2009 - Posts

Imagine Cup; UK Bags 1st Place in Short Film and 3rd in Games Development
15 July 09 10:19 AM

We’re now all back from Cairo and fully recovered from the heat and sleep deprivation. The great news is that across the board the UK teams excelled with both the Short Film and Games Development making it on stage at the final. Our Short Film team (Fulham Read More...

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Student Celebration Day Videos
03 July 09 02:13 PM

Just as we’re heading off to Cairo for the Imagine Cup worldwide finals I want to give you a flashback to the UK final event … Previously I published the slides from all of the Microsoft Research talks delivered on the day and now, finally I have the Read More...

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Cairo here we come...
02 July 09 08:17 AM

Regular readers will know all about the Imagine Cup but for the uninitiated it is the worlds largest student technology competition which Microsoft runs annually. 2009 has been a bumper year for the UK with 14 students travelling to Egypt this Friday Read More...

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Kodu is Here!
01 July 09 03:56 PM

Have you ever wanted to create your own game but don’t want to get your hands dirty with code? We now have the answer… Kodu! Kodu allows you to build games using traditional programming paradigms such as conditional statements and loops but without having Read More...

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