April 2005 - Posts

David Jones from RMIT has a helpful link
14 April 05 07:27 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

David Jones, Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and faculty mentor to the teams from his school has started an eBox oriented Q&A that he has offered to make available to the teams. http://babbage.ece.rmit.edu.au/CEMegaFauna/ This Read More...

Out of the office starting tomorrow evening, Back on 25th morning
14 April 05 06:23 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

As I had mentioned about a month ago, I will be out of the office for one week starting tomorrow evening. I will be offline the entire week so you won't get any responses from me. The chats have been scheduled as normal - 9:00 am Pacific Time on Tuesday, Read More...

Team Member Information and Passwords
14 April 05 05:43 PM | Ivan Joseph | 1 Comments   

Yesterday I sent another mail to all the teams with their passwords so that they can submit their final reports. Without the password, they will not be able to submit the reports. We had to make changes to our database since several teams had incorrect Read More...

SVOX has a Windows CE TTS Engine that you can use
14 April 05 05:40 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

This is great news for the teams that need this. SVOX has this product and has agreed to make it available to one of the teams. Pls contact Brona Collins - collins@svox.com directly for your requirements. Thanks!! Read More...

Text to Speech Engine for Windows CE
13 April 05 09:38 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

I have emailed two other companies - Sakrament in Russia and SVOX about their TTS products. I am waiting for responses from them so I will let you know whenever I hear. Meanwhile if you have individual conversations going on with any of them, please go Read More...

Transcript from Todays Chat
13 April 05 08:58 PM | Ivan Joseph | 2 Comments   

Thanks for participating - here's the transcript. Hope you found this useful. We'll have two more chats - next Tuesday - April 19th at 9:00 am Pacific and next Wednesday (April 20th) at 5:00 pm pacific. Chat Topic: Windows Embedded Student Challenge Date: Read More...

Reminder - Today's chat starts at 5:00 pm
13 April 05 04:09 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

That's in less than three hours from now - hope to see you there. Here's the place. http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/chatroom.aspx Cheers! Ivan Read More...

Transcript from Today's chat
12 April 05 05:37 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Thanks for attending today's chat. The transcript is below. Pls also remember to attend tomorrow's chat which starts at 5:00 pm pacific. Here's the place: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/chatroom.aspx To find the excat time in your time zone, click here: Read More...

Report Submission - some more guidelines
11 April 05 04:27 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

I have earlier given you guidelines that the judges will be using to judge the reports. I want to provide some more info as well so that you know what the judges are looking for. Originality - the goal is to be able to come up with something new/ something Read More...

Report Submission Guidelines - Important. Please read.
08 April 05 07:55 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Pls note that in your report you must mention in section 4 how you have used the eBox and Windows CE. Since the contest requirement is that teams build a Windows CE image and use the eBox, the judges will want to see mention of that in your report. So Read More...

Transcript from yesterday's chat
07 April 05 12:33 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Thanks to everybody for participating in yesterday's chat. We hope you found the answers useful. I am attaching the transcript below. Chat Topic: Windows Embedded Student Challenge Date: Thursday, April 07, 2005 James Z (Moderator): We are pleased to Read More...

Windows Embedded Student ChallengE - Report Submission Guidelines
05 April 05 05:29 PM | Ivan Joseph | 2 Comments   

This might be useful as you get ready to submit your final reports! Windows Embedded Student ChallengE Final Report Guidelines WHEN YOU WRITE YOUR FINAL REPORT, TRY AND THINK “WHAT ARE THE JUDGES LOOKING FOR?” The top thirty entries will be selected by Read More...

Transcript from Today's blog
05 April 05 01:25 PM | Ivan Joseph | 1 Comments   

Thanks everybody for participating in today's blog. We hope you found it useful. I am attaching below the transcript. I noticed that Rick from DePaul was also trying to help some others out- Thanks Rick! Hope the projects are going well. Our next chat Read More...

Project Report Submission - Passwords sent to all teams
04 April 05 06:17 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

This morning you would have received an email from me about your passwords to submit your project reports. Pls keep these passwords in a safe place as you will need them when it is time to submit your reports. I'm also a bit concerned at the number of Read More...

Our Technical Chats start tomorrow at 9:00 am pacific
04 April 05 06:12 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Hi guys: I'm back in the office after my knee suregry. I feel fine and can walk without any crutches. I haven't started jogging yet but hope to do that in about a month... Anway I hope you are all jogging along nicely with your projects. I wanted to remind Read More...