Imagine Cup 2008 Winners Announced
The winners of Imagine Cup 2008 were announced recently and I am proud to say it was an Australian team that won the Software Design category. For background on Imagine Cup see previous blog posting.
Team SOAK (Members: David Burela, Dimaz Pramudya, Ed Hooper, Long Zheng) won with an entry that had the aspiration of helping farmers achieve sustainable use of their land. This is achieved through the integrated use of environmental sensing, rich visual front ends to display the information to the farmer, and a subsystem which controls farm equipment such as sprinkler systems.
Theirs was an innovative combination of web services technology from Microsoft and BT that included the latest .NET framework, Silverlight and Virtual Earth and Windows Mobile device. Read more...
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