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Great Technical Speakers in Ireland & Northern Ireland

Thanks to the over 200 of you who showed up to meet Scott Guthrie and hear him talk.  Judging by the questions people were asking yesterday, people are very excited about ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET 4/VS2010!  In fact there were so many questions, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:10 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Imagine Cup 2009: Innovative Students Take Science Gallery by Storm

April 30th was a very competitive day in Dublin.  Students from around Ireland competed in Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup competition at the Science Gallery in Trinity College. The Imagine Cup is a contest open to students all around the world.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:54 AM by martharotter | 1 Comments

SkyCon - Recap

I spent this past weekend in Limerick attending SkyCon 2009 , which was a really fun and diverse conference, organized by the University of Limerick Computer Society (Skynet). Besides having great topics such as Demoscene, Swarm Robots , Open Source, Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 15, 2009 12:59 PM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Embedded Development Tour Coming to Dublin

Pssst. Are you a student or academic?  Like robots?  Interested in learning how to build the embedded systems and robots of the future? Then why not attend the Microsoft Windows Embedded European Tour which is coming to Ireland on Friday, November Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 8:46 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Artbots: The Robot Talent Show

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve gotten the chance to write any new programs for my Lego Mindstorms robot. The Artbots were in town this weekend, and I thought that would be the perfect place to get some excellent inspiration. Artbots is an international Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:16 PM by martharotter | 1 Comments

Welcome New Microsoft Student Partners

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Microsoft Ireland’s new team of Student Partners.  They were incredibly enthusiastic, and I’m looking forward to the great things they’re planning on doing over the next school year. I talked to the students Read More...
Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 8:09 PM by martharotter | 1 Comments

New Channel 8 Sidebar Gadget

Check it out – there is a cool new gadget with content from Channel 8, downloadable for your Vista machine.  It flips through the latest content on channel8.  When you click on an item that grabs your interest, you will get more information Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:30 PM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Fourth XNA Video: Dr. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela

Dr. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela is an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He works with the Applied Games Group. He and his team are doing quite a lot of interesting work as you will see in his talk, titled "Learning to Race." He talks Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 9:37 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Third XNA Day Video: Dave Mitchell

Dave Mitchell came all the way from Seattle during his Thanksgiving holiday to talk with students at the XNA tour. He is a director at Microsoft for XNA, and he certainly knows his stuff. Dave gave the opening keynote of the XNA European Tour, where he Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 9:07 AM by martharotter | 1 Comments

Next XNA Day Video Posted: Rob Miles

Rob Miles is a Microsoft MVP, and as he says in his highly entertaining talk below - it's what all Microsoft Student Partners should aspire to be. Watch as Rob tells bad jokes and demos XNA Game Studio on his MacBook Pro. I laughed out loud at his descriptions Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:58 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

First of the XNA Day Videos Posted!

Back in November, Dublin was host to an event called the XNA Game Studio Tour.  It was a full day jam-packed with superb XNA experts talking about the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 release, showing off features and real-life examples of XNA applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:19 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

QuMIX! MIX at Queen's University in Belfast

Today I went up to Belfast with Vincent Vergonjeanne and Liam Cronin to present at QuMIX '07. Mike McMeekin , who is a Microsoft Student Partner at Queen's University Belfast did a fabulous job setting up the afternoon, so special thanks go to him and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:41 PM by martharotter | 1 Comments

UCC Students Learn About XNA and Silverlight

On Monday I went to Cork to visit students at UCC. Despite some technical difficulties involving scheduling and room changes, Microsoft Student Partners Nathan Forde and Sarah Fitzgerald managed to get together a great crowd! We spent about a half hour Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 5:26 AM by martharotter | 1 Comments

The Final Imagine Cup Results!

Wow - Ireland really cleaned house at the Imagine Cup finals! Team Red Dawn ( Mohammed Al-Tahs and Marouf Azad) from the Dublin Institue of Technology finished SECOND in the world for the web development competition! This was out of 155 teams, which is Read More...
Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 8:03 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments
 
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