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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
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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
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Student Celebration Day Slides
01 May 09 08:31 AM
To follow on from yesterday’s post I wanted to share the slides from the MSR talks: MSR Overview - Andrew Herbert Getting from A to B: fast route-finding using slow computers - Simon Peyton-Jones Curing Cancer, Halting global Disease Outbreaks and averting
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Student Celebration Day
30 April 09 12:12 PM
Yesterday we held a big event at MSR (Microsoft Research) Cambridge to celebrate the success of UK MSP s and Imagine Cup Contestants. The day included a series of fascinating talks from MSR and Microsoft (slides and video to follow shortly) and
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X48 Update – Games Now Available for Download
29 March 09 11:09 PM
A really quick update on X48 – all the games are now online so you can see for yourself what can be achieved with XNA, 36 hours and a crate of Red Bull! Seavolution – The winning game from X48 Technorati Tags: XNA , X48 , Microsoft , Pixel Labs , Channel
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X48 Wrap Up
23 March 09 05:26 PM
It’s all over - early Saturday evening 80 exhausted students left Derby University for home after spending 36 hours producing some awesome games using XNA . The top three prizes went to: First Prize - Huddersfield Green's Seavolution Second Prize - Huddersfield
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Student Technology Day Videos Now Online
25 November 08 11:42 AM
On 1st of October at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, London we hosted an awesome event with Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) keynoting and a host of other top speakers flanking him. We've now got all the sessions online so if you couldn't make
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Inspiration Tour back on the Road
09 October 08 10:12 PM
Yesterday saw the first of this academic years Inspiration Tour events at Bradford University. This year we're running two sessions; one focusing onrich application development using Silverlight / WPF and the other on XNA games development. The content
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Imagine Cup Update
08 July 08 09:25 AM
Both our Software Design and Embedded development teams put in a sterling effort but unfortunately neither progressed to the final. At least we can take consolation in the quality of the entries that did progress, the quality of work produced by our international
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Imagine Cup Grand Final, Paris
04 July 08 09:48 AM
Over the past couple of weeks our UK finalist teams have been spending every waking hour preparing for the Imagine Cup final where they'll be tested to their limits and ultimately have the opportunity to win the worlds largest and most prestigious student
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Inspiration Tour Wrap Up Video
11 June 08 09:43 AM
Regular readers of this blog will know that a huge amount of my time this year was dedicated to taking new technologies on the road and showing students how to get started with them. In the end we travelled over 15,000 miles to speak to 4000 students
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Inspiration Tour Update
07 April 08 10:26 AM
We've been on the road since October, traveled over 15 thousand miles and spoken to nearly four thousand students about Silverlight , XNA and Windows Embedded amongst other technologies. As we've gone to each university we've taken photos which I've been
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MIX08 Sessions Now Online
21 March 08 02:20 PM
If you're interested in Microsoft Web technologies then this is for you, the sessions from Microsoft's annual Web conference held in Las Vegas are now online at http://sessions.visitmix.com/ . There's lots of cool content available including presentations
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All Inspiration Tour Sessions Now Online
08 February 08 10:34 AM
To follow on from my previous post about the Inspiration Tour on Channel8 I just wanted to let everyone know that all of our sessions are now online: Introduction Silverlight Windows Embedded XNA Technorati Tags: Inspiration Tour , Channel8
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Inspiration Tour Now Online!
24 January 08 02:20 PM
As many of you already know this year we have been touring UK universities on the Inspiration Tour talking about Silverlight, XNA, Windows Embedded and how these technologies are relevant to the student audience. We've had a lot of great feedback about
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