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February 2008 - Posts

Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:46 AM

Worldwide Telescope demo - an astonishing and inspirational technology

My colleagues all have their headphones on and are glued to their screens watching the demo of this new technology. It takes a lot to impress these technology-savvy folk but this demo is causing wows and gasps around our office. Richard Scoble even admits
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:24 PM

Silverlight 2.0 tutorials

Those of you coming along to our free Silverlight for Academics day on March 12th might want to take a look at the series of tutorials produced by Scott "lives in Seattle and builds a few products for Microsoft" Guthrie . If you have used WPF before the
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:10 PM

Recruiting students via You Tube

I was looking at the University of Brighton's website this morning and spotted a link to a recruitment video for their Library and Information Management MSC courses. The video features staff, students and the facilities and went straight into the top
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Friday, February 22, 2008 4:30 PM

5GB of free storage

It's been quite a week for announcements. First there was Dreamspark , then XNA 3.0 and now 5GB of Skydrive storage space. As Ray Fleming points out on the Higher Education blog, "Anybody can get a SkyDrive, as it's free - just sign up for it using your
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Friday, February 22, 2008 3:36 PM

Bill Gates' speech at Stanford University

This interesting talk covers several topics that are of interest including Dreamspark, Students and the Imagine Cup. You and your students can find it on Channel 8 . If your students don't know about Channel 8 yet then here is the spiel. Channel 8 is
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Friday, February 22, 2008 3:25 PM

6 Graduate opportunities with the CM Group

Last week we held our first Imagine Cup event at our offices in Reading during which our Academic Developer Evangelist, Ed Dunhill had opportunity to chat with Steve Cox from CM Group (Content Master). In Ed's own words. "CM create training, e-learning
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:23 AM

Coming soon - the ability to publish your XNA game on Xbox Live Marketplace

We are excited to announce the impending release of XNA Games Studio 3.0 this summer giving (among other things) the ability for all XNA authors to publish games to Xbox Live Marketplace and in the process, to earn reputation, fame and even income. This
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:29 PM

Early bird discount for the Architect Insight Conference

The Architect Insight Conference is a two day residential event aimed at senior architects in forward thinking companies and universities. There is an early bird discount which provides a saving of £229.13 for all those who register before leap day this
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:46 PM

DreamSpark is here!

What's this?  Free developer software for every student in the UK? Ed Dunhill has all the details on his blog . Share this:
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Friday, February 08, 2008 4:08 PM

Collaborative Campus Live Meeting

I learned on the Higher Education blog that our Colleagues in the Higher Education team are holding a Live Meeting: "On Tuesday 26 th February at 9.30am we will be running a Live Meeting presentation to discuss the Microsoft Collaborative Campus as a
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:46 PM

Why Rare recruits games graduates

The academic team has enjoyed working with Rare over the past 18 months and it seems they have enjoyed it too, so much so that Nick Burton has put pen to paper (OK, type to screen) to bring our attention to some great facts. You might be surprised to
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:52 AM

Want to make 3D games using XNA?

Easy, here's the recipe: Download a copy of XNA Game Studio Express Click to visit Ed Dunhill's recent blog post where you can find the 3D ingredients including stunning demos by Dan Waters Add a generous dollop of imagination Et voila, serves a lot of
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:19 AM

Fun technical curricula for schools

I've blogged before about all of the resources that are available on our global Faculty Connection website , if this is news to you then please take a moment to have a look because there really is a lot there that you can just take and use. I doubt however,
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Monday, February 04, 2008 5:47 PM

Innovation = fresh thinking that creates value

The Economist recently came up with this new, succinct definition of innovation. A definition which the Deputy director of Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC), Ken wood, applies to his team of top researchers. If you don't browse the MSRC website from
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Monday, February 04, 2008 3:58 PM

More than 2 billion transistors on one little chip

This mind boggling achievement is available on a quad core chip called the Intel Tukwila. The first chip with 1 billion transistors was made in 2006 and so this new milestone nicely proves Moore's Law which states that the number of transistors it is
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