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Microsoft Student Technology Day Videos Online - SteveB and more industry/MSFT greats
21 November 08 12:49 PM
On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day Read More...
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Imagine Cup, Competitors at the ready....
20 November 08 01:56 PM
The Imagine Cup 2009 is in full swing. And there is no better year to compete - there has been so much going on in the world of Microsoft technology recently: Silverlight 2.0 released PDC and all the goodness around Mesh, Azure, Windows 7, etc XNA Studio Read More...
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Imagine Cup UK - The winners story
27 August 08 10:28 AM
It seems like a lifetime ago that we held the Imagine Cup UK finals in London and over 150 students, partners and press came together to see what the competition was all about and how students were helping to fight climate change. Ben and Dominic won Read More...
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Expression...nah...its all about MSPaint for designers
31 March 08 05:10 PM
Looking forward to attending Future of Web Design in London in mid-April. The Academic team will be there in a "Student Zone" inside the MS stand area wanting to talk to designer students about how they use software and if we can help them or Read More...
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Imagine Cup competitors - where are they now? Channel 8 videos online
25 March 08 05:17 PM
My first two videos on Channel 8 are now online. Yes, I do sound that weird (that's Northern Irish people for you) and talk a lot. But these guys all have done incredibly well out of the Imagine Cup and our student programs and their stories are worth Read More...
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Imagine Cup Day on 5th June 2008 - Celebrating the best in UK student talent
20 March 08 10:49 AM
It's been a busy couple of months for the Imagine Cup and we have a good 200-odd students fighting it out for great prizes and the opportunity to travel to Paris (in style) to compete at the worldwide finals. And to celebrate the best year for the Imagine Read More...
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Bill Gates at Stanford on Channel 8
21 February 08 03:14 PM
The Bill Gates Stanford Speech Covers DreamSpark, Imagine Cup, Innovation, power of software and students Read More...
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The Inspiration Tour videos on Channel 8
10 February 08 08:02 PM
I managed to get Ed and Ben into the MS UK recording studio thing before Christmas to record their sessions delivered across the country online for Channel 8 . Those videos are now all online. Ed has the background and here are the videos are for your Read More...
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Conference calls
24 January 08 11:46 AM
We ran our first student Live Meeting and had 30 of our student partners from around the UK on, and for many of them it was their first experience of a conference call. We had people typing and with their laptop microphones on, phone calls going on in Read More...
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Bill's last day at the Office
09 January 08 11:55 AM
This is too good not to share! It is a spoof video which Bill Gates opened the CES 2008 Keynote with - it has loads of celebrities making appearances and worth a watch Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip Almost as funny is that George in the IT Pro team Read More...
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innerworkings - Train your developers to code (properly)
07 December 07 11:12 AM
I spent some time talking to Bob and the guys at innerworkings about their product and service - it is a developer training interface which integrates directly with Visual Studio and gives developers (ones that write code for a living rather than students) Read More...
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Where are they now? Imagine Cup 2004 Winner - Andy Grieves
06 December 07 02:01 PM
This is the first in a series of videos and email interviews with former competitors in the Imagine Cup here in the UK. A very common question we receive is "What happens to former winners and competitors?" and whether the Imagine Cup has had Read More...
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Like the StudentZine newsletter - take this quick survey
20 November 07 03:52 PM
The StudentZine is a small but perfectly formed newsletter we send out to students across the UK every month telling them all about the latest technology trends and student activities we do on campus. We want to make it better, both in terms of content Read More...
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FreePlay Lounge - the movie!
31 October 07 08:57 PM
Video: Free Play Lounge, GameCity07 Paul Foster recorded the event I mentioned earlier . Looked like a great party! Read More...
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Xbox 360 + Students + Paul Smith = Freeplay lounge and GamesCity event
28 October 07 04:49 PM
Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend but it looked like a cracking event (pulled together mainly by Claire on our team !). A great event hosted by Nottingham council and Nottingham Trent University. We hosted a bunch of academics and students at two Read More...
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