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18 July 2008
Student Voice - Life as an Intern by Kevin Pfister
So what is life actually like being a current intern at Microsoft? What does it feel like working at the world’s largest, greatest and best-known software company? Well I guess that for starters I should mention the chairs are exceedingly comfortable Read More...
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16 July 2008
Microsoft Student Partners by Stacey Ball
As the new intern I thought I would start this issue with a bit about me and what you can expect to see in the Studentzine in the coming issues. Already I’ve been designing the new MSP Programme 2008/9 and have been looking forward to exciting new events, Read More...
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16 July 2008
Imagine Cup 2008 - Paris by Ed Dunhill, Academic Developer Evangelist - http://blogs.msdn.com/edunhill
Last week I was in Paris at the Worldwide Finals of the Imagine Cup, in this months article I'll introduce you to the competition, some of the best entries and the overall experience in Paris. So what's it all about? The Imagine Cup is the world's largest Read More...
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21 May 2008
Worldwide Telescope - Kris Athi (MSP)
Unlock the star gazer in you... Today, Microsoft Research has released a cool new application that really is out of this world! WoldWide Telescope turns your desktop PC into an (almost) fully fledged telescope to help you unlock the star gazer deep inside Read More...
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21 August 2006
Invasion of the Robots!
By Matt Duffin. In July’s issue of the newsletter, we introduced you to the Invasion of the Robots Contest and its British counterpart, Team Britbot . These competitions invite you to create a conversational robot, or ‘bot’, that can be used with MSN Read More...
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18 July 2006
ATTACK! ATTACK! Robots ahoy...
Though not necessarily in name, robots have fascinated man for years. Just to make sure I wasn’t rambling on with nonsensical idiosyncratic nonsense, it seemed like a good idea to find a definition of the word “Robot”. From a quick search around and the Read More...
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03 July 2006
[Article(".NET Attributes")]
There have been many articles on Attributes, so rather than go through the rigmarole of re-hashing a subject I have will give a quick introduction. After that I have knocked up a quick demo which will hopefully get you moving in the right direction! At Read More...
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15 June 2006
World Cup Madness - Soccer Scorecard
Here's a little thursday fun for you to share with your friends and family. Follow your favorite teams and players during the FIFA World Cup tournament with Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard. This fun program allows you to access all the latest tournament news Read More...
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08 May 2006
UK student? Want to be a Student Rep? Read on...
By signing up to be a Microsoft Representative you won’t just get to find out about the best technology out there, you’ll actually get hold of it! Not only will you receive unique access to the representative portal that’ll keep you up-to-date with the Read More...
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26 April 2006
Paint Brushes out!
Are you interested in the next wave of designer tools and want to get the low-down on what is happening with the industry? Creative Arts Magazine are holding an event on the 10th of May in Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Paul Newman, Read More...
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26 April 2006
{Games++} - Games Development Day
It’s finally here, Games Development Day has become {Games++} and we can now confirm the date and venue: // Wednesday 17th May 2006, from 10:00am to 5:00pm // Leeds University Union's Conference Auditorium Leeds Game Development Society ( http://gdsleeds.com/ Read More...
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26 April 2006
It’s an Online Treasure Hunt!!!!!!!!!!
Q1 : Clue: What planes do… Riddle: Looked far and wide, Around the bend, Over the hill, And back again. One word was used, First Highlighted Blue, Used to be Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, Synonyms could be right too… Q2: a) An interesting craft… b) Read More...
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24 April 2006
Imagine Cup on The Register
As you may or may not know, the winners of the UK Imagine Cup are blogging about their trials and tribulation on The Register-Developer ( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/imagine_cup/ ). It’s been interesting so far to see what the boys have been up-to and Read More...
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13 April 2006
Academic Papers and Search
When you start researching projects for university; or even when you have a question on some arcane titbit of knowledge that a research in the deepest darkest chad has discovered and there is no way that you can contact him - what better way than to get Read More...
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05 April 2006
A Personal Review of F# by Adnan Osmani Microsoft Student Partner
When I first heard about F# - the new functional programming language from Microsoft, I thought it was going to be yet another deviation of Haskell. Haskell is one of those languages developers rarely use again once they’ve left University. However, having Read More...
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