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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:44 AM

Imagine Cup Registrations

  Hello Everyone, Interest for the Imagine Cup has been strong and we can confirm the various categories are now open for competition. From experience we know that the next couple of months will be key in getting great UK representation in the Imagine
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Friday, November 21, 2008 3:02 PM

Student Technology Day - Future User Experience Technologies

Hello All, Filmed at the Royal Festival on 1st October, please find below the session by Paolo Barone on Microsoft Surface : If for any reason you cannot view this clip, please do let me know. Best wishes,   Allison
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Friday, November 21, 2008 2:53 PM

Student Technology Day - Microsoft Research Talk on CS Inside Halo 3 True Ranking System

For those of you who joined us at the Royal Festival Hall on 1st October and, especially for those who were otherwise engaged, please find below the session by Thore Graepel, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Ralf Herbrich on Microsoft Research Talk on CS
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Friday, November 21, 2008 2:23 PM

Student Technology Day videos

Hello All, For those of you who made it along to the Royal Festival Hall and, especially for those of you who had other commitments, please find below Steve Ballmer’s Keynote Speech:   If you have any difficulty in viewing the clip, please don’t
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Friday, August 15, 2008 9:29 AM

Microsoft Research Asia - 10th Anniversary Innovation Forum

  On August 12, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft ® , joined visionary technologists from Microsoft Research (MSR) Asia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and the University of Hong Kong, to
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:03 AM

News from the Faculty Summit

Lee Dirks, the Director for Education and Scholarly Research , announced five new ‘lifecycle’ tools for academics and researchers. The tools are as follows: Research Information Centre Creative Commons (an add-in to Microsoft Office) Article Authoring
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Monday, July 14, 2008 4:21 PM

Gamesfest 2008

Hello Everyone, I thought you might like to hear about Gamefest 2008 which takes place on 6 th August at Chelsea Football Club and particularly, I thought you’d like to know about the early bird savings on registration if you book before midnight on 25
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Monday, July 07, 2008 3:05 PM

New Silverlight Videos

Hi, For those of you with an interest in Silverlight I thought you might like to take a look at a series of 'how to' videos available from the Silverlight team. You'll find everything from the basics through to best practices and even a series of tips
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Friday, June 27, 2008 9:26 AM

Invitation to Convergence 2008 Copenhagen - Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance MDAA:00071306

Hi, I thought you'd like to receive your invitation to an interesting event in Denmark. Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance invites you to attend: Microsoft Academic Preconference and Convergence 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark from 17 to 20 November, 2008.
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:36 PM

Computer Security: What's the point?

Steve Lamb , our resident security evangelist, told me about this free security lecture entitled, Computer Security: What's the point! which is being held at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Edinburgh on the evening of February 13th . Please
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:53 PM

Films for Learning

One of the exciting new projects being demonstrated at the BETT show this year is the Films for Learning Project. I know that many of you work with your feeder schools to establish links, provide extra curricular activities and to foster enthusiasm for
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:13 PM

What your colleagues have downloaded from the Academic Resource Centre this month

I have blogged before about the wealth of resources available on the Academic Resource Centre and have posted links about the most popular global downloads . I now have a tool that lets me see what the popular downloads are in the UK so this is what your
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:51 PM

XNA Games Studio 2.0 released

Great news, XNA 2.0 is now available. Find out all about it on the XNA team blog . I still have a few "Getting Started with XNA" DVDs left so if you are a UK academic please get in touch and let me know how many you would like. Claire
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:12 PM

Inspiration Tour Update

With 17 dates behind them and another 37 yet to come, Ed and Ben are having a great impact on the students that they present to as part of the Inspiration Tour . We love to get feedback, both good and bad but our favourite so far is: The talk you gave
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Monday, November 19, 2007 7:33 PM

What's new with XNA v2.0?

Ed Dunhill, Academic Developer Evangelist, answers just this question in his blog and links you to the XNA team blog too. There is still massive interest in XNA v1 and so we have produced some more of the popular 'Getting started with XNA' DVDs. If you
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