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• 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 celebrate a decade of ground-breaking collaboration during the Microsoft Research Asia's 10th Anniversary Innovation Forum. Gates, who delivered the keynote speech, said that Microsoft’s relationship to academia in the Asia Pacific region remains vital and that cultivating the next generation of researchers should continue to be a focal point of MSR Asia’s work. “For the last 10 years, great collaborative work between Microsoft Research Asia and the region’s world-leading academic researchers has resulted in a wide range of exciting technology innovations,” Gates said. “As Asia becomes more and more of a global centre for innovation, I have no doubt that Microsoft Research Asia and its academic partners will have an even bigger impact on the world of technology.” At the MSR Asia Innovation Forum, Bill Gates said that the success of Microsoft depends on its ability to attract and retain the best talent from around the world—something he believes MSR Asia is doing well. To learn more about this collaboration and to hear Bill’s speech, click Innovation.   Best wishes, Allison   Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 4:29 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Students, Careers, Technology, Academics, Teaching, Microsoft, Graduates

• 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 (an add-in to Microsoft Word) E-Journal Hosting Service Research Output Repository Platform To hear more about these tools from Lee, please visit Channel 8. If you have any questions, do contact me and I’ll see if I can get them answered for you. Best, Allison Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:03 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Students, Technology, Academics, Teaching, Student, Software, Academic, Channel8, Graduates

• Software Entrepreneurship Faculty Workshop

  Hi All, In June, Bournemouth University played host to Lars Lindstedt who delivered a two day Software Entrepreneurship Faculty Workshop. The training materials for that event are now available to view on the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship website and include the slide decks together with a couple of case studies. Do please take a look, and if you have any questions or want further information, come back to me and I’ll be happy to help. Best, Allison McVety Academic Information Manager Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:45 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Students, Careers, Training, Technology, Academics, Teaching, Software, Microsoft, Graduates, Recruitment

• 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.   Last year we hosted about 60 educators and researchers from 17 countries from around the world. We would like to see you this year!   The Academic Preconference will be held 17-18 November 2008. ·         Includes two tracks (Educators and Researchers Track) with several special sessions, workshops and network opportunities for educators and researchers working with Microsoft Dynamics software. You will be able to network, exchange experiences and enhance your knowledge with like-minded educators and researchers. ·         Location: Copenhagen Business School (CBS) – Kilevej 14a, 2000 Frederiksberg. ·         Registration fee: no registration fee is associated with these two days. ·         Please consider the following call for papers and presentations.   Call for Papers – Researchers Track - due by 1st September 2008: Academic Preconference 2008 - Research Agenda 17 - 18 November 2008 Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Frederiksberg   Submit to: workshop@3gERP.org - Please write "Submission to 3gERP workshop" See instructions attached.   Call for Presentation – Educators Track - due by 1st September 2008: Academic Preconference 2008 - Educators Agenda 17 - 18 November 2008 Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Frederiksberg   Submit to: dynaa@microsoft.com – Please write “Academic Preconference - Convergence 2008 Presentation” See instructions attached.   Convergence will be held 19-20 November 2008. ·         Here you will enhance your knowledge through Dynamics conference sessions and interactions with Microsoft customers, partners, Microsoft Dynamics specialist and industry experts and establish a true community that can be leveraged in your work. ·         Location: Bella Center A/S, Center Boulevard, 2300 Copenhagen S ·         Registration fee - Academic Alliance team will fund a main part of your registration fee at Convergence. Your costs will include €250.00 for your share of registration fee. ·         Please request special registration codes from us to have the special academic fee.   Registration: To register please fill in attached registration form and send to dynaa@microsoft.com.   Registration includes entrance at the registered event, the meals served as part of the agenda as well as a special educator evening gathering.   The number of participants is limited due to space restrictions and will be determined on a first come basis.   Customer Excellence Award - Excellence in Academics: ·         The Convergence Customer Excellence Awards recognize, honor and celebrate customers/members that have achieved outstanding success with their Microsoft solutions as well as Microsoft partners’ solutions. Start to consider if that is your educational institution. ·         Please submit your own nomination via the online form which will be available 1 July 2008. Find more details here: http://www.microsoft.com/Dynamics/convergence/copenhagen/2008/customer_excellence.aspx   To make sure to receive all details please write to dynaa@microsoft.com to be included on the mailing list.   We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!   MICROSOFT DYNAMICS ACADEMIC ALLIANCE     The Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance is a global program that enables educators to incorporate Microsoft Dynamics technology into the classroom.  Currently, over 1,000 institutions around the world use Microsoft Dynamics products to provide students with an exceptional hands-on learning experience.  If you would like to learn more about the Academic Alliance you are welcome to visit our website: http://www.microsoft.com/education/academic_alliance.mspx.   Conference on 3rd Generation Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (3gERP) The 3gERP project aims to develop the academic foundations for a ‘standard’ flexible and highly configurable global ERP-system for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs), which can be implemented and maintained at a fraction of the costs of current systems. The ambition of the project is to tackle some of the fundamental challenges and trade-offs existing systems have, for instance with regard to customizability vs. total cost including upgrades. If you would like to learn more about 3gERP please visit this website: http://www.3gerp.org     All the best,     Allison, your new Academic Information Manager     Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 4:26 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Training, Technology, MSDN AA, Academics, Teaching, Software

• 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 Computer Science and Engineering subjects and I think this resource could help you. I see potential for you to help your feeder schools make videos that other schools can benefit from, either in your area or across the country. I see students demonstrating their programming, electronics, robotics projects to their peers. What do you think?   Claire   The details of the project are: Films for Learning (FFL) is a project that has been inspiring schools for two years now to create their own video resources and share them with others online as part of core curriculum. FFL is organised out of Thomas Hardye School in Dorset with the first year of funding from NESTA. · Audience for FFL is youth 6-18 years of age and teaching professionals. · All submitted videos are moderated by UK teaching professionals before publication to ensure the site content is safe and appropriate for education use. · Microsoft is a sponsor of FFL and helped to re-launch www.filmsforlearning.org. This collaborative site and online community will serve as an educational resource that inspires and helps teachers and students to make their own video productions. · Approximately 50 schools in the UK take part today (note that most school/classrooms are already undertaking video projects but haven’t had a place to interact around them more broadly. · School participation costs – a DV video camera, a PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista for access to Windows MovieMaker, Internet connectivity to publish the video to filmsforlearning.org · The Films for Learning community members provide student and teacher activity/training days, using a travelling film lab with equipment funded by Microsoft, to help schools start media enhanced, personal learning activities. The introductory FFL video (provided as a WMV) is available here – please watch if you wanted to see and hear more about FFL by the teachers and pupils doing FFL today! http://community.filmsforlearning.org.ultimahosts.eu/video/FfL-Film-2008.wmv Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:53 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Technology, Web, Academics, Robotics, Teaching, Embedded, Student

• 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 colleagues have been looking at since November 1st. There are thousands of articles and resources on all kinds of subjects so if you have not yet had a look, I recommend that you do so soon. Claire   Title   Author Name   Date Of Creation   Windows Operating System Internals Curriculum Resource Kit (CRK) Russinovich, Mark E; Polze, Andreas; Solomon, David A 2/16/2006 Network Programming (C#) Xing（邢文娟）, Wenjuan 1/5/2006 ProjectOZ Probert, Dave 7/13/2006 Introduction to Parallel Programming Gergel, Victor P 9/11/2006 Windows Operating System Internals Curriculum Resource Kit (CRK) - Tools Russinovich, Mark E; Solomon, David A; Polze, Andreas 2/16/2006 ASP.NET for C# - Part One (Modules) DevelopMentor 11/10/2003 Comparing the Linux and Windows Kernels -- CRK Unit OS-B Polze, Andreas; Solomon, David A; Russinovich, Mark E 2/16/2006 Introduction to Embedded Systems using Windows Embedded CE - Presentation Materials Hamblen, James 1/2/2007 Scripting -- CRK Unit OS12 Polze, Andreas; Solomon, David A; Russinovich, Mark E 2/16/2006 Operating System Principles -- CRK Unit OS2 Polze, Andreas; Solomon, David A; Russinovich, Mark E 2/16/2006 Posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:13 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology, Academics, Teaching

• 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 are a UK Academic then please let me know if you would like some and how many (max 50). Claire Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 2:33 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: XNA, Technology, Academics, Teaching, Student

• Life changing prizes to be won the the Imagine Cup

  Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup, Students The Imagine cup registrations are flooding in and the competition is definitely hotting up. If you need anymore compelling reasons to prompt your students into registering (apart from the chance to win an Xbox 360 Elite) I thought I would share with you the prizes that are on offer which could really make a difference to their live's and give them a great start into their chosen career.   Competition Prize Software Design 2 weeks in Seattle working alongside the Popfly team. A great work experience opportunity to see how Microsoft builds software that the winners can use when they apply for jobs and go into industry Game Development 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft Games Studio in the UK Embedded Development 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft embedded partner IT Challenge A Tranquil PC Windows Home Server Project Hoshimi 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft Games Studio in the UK Algorithm A top specced desktop PC with Visual Studio 2008 Interface Design A top specced desktop PC with Expression Studio Short Film An HD video camera with tripod and accessories Photography A Digital SLR camera, tripod, extra lens and accessories   As you can see some of the prizes could really make a difference to your students future,so what are you waiting for go to the Imagine Cup Website and find out how you can get involved.   Kate Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 10:30 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, Students, System Administrator, competitions, Academics, Teaching, Student

• The Rare 2008 lecture series

  We are pleased to announce the 2008 lecture series offered by our colleagues at Rare. These free talks can be delivered to Games Design degree students in the UK. If you would like to book one then please let me know. We will try to satisfy all requests but recommend that you book early to avoid disappointment (the speakers have to write some games too!) The titles are: Pre-Computed Global Illumination in Games Real Time Graphics for Computer Games: A Primer Creativity and Design Smoke and Mirrors: The True Art of Game AI Games with Character The Past, Present and Future of Computer Games Development Retro Revisited The Development Process An Insight into the Shared Technology Group at Rare Never work with children or Pinata Claire Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:01 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, XNA, Academics, Teaching

• RFP Announcement on "Beyond Search - Semantic Computing and Internet Economics"

  Microsoft Research is pleased to announce a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP):  Beyond Search – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics. For full details, guidelines, and instructions, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/BeyondSearch_RFP.aspx This Request for Proposals is done in partnership with Microsoft adCenter in support of its collaboration with the academic research community. Submission deadline The RFP due date is November 1, 2007, 5pm PDT (-8 UTC/GMT) Awards The total amount available under this request for proposals (RFP) is $1,000,000. Microsoft anticipates making approximately 20 awards averaging $50,000, with a maximum of $100,000 for any single award. RFP highlights To advance academic research and publication in the area of Internet Research and, in particular in data mining, information finding, information supply, and internet economics, Microsoft intends to make available to the RFP awardees a Microsoft adCenter Search query log excerpt with 100 million search queries along with ad click logs sampled over a few months, and a Live Search query log excerpt with 15 million search queries with per-query search result click-throughs. In addition, Microsoft adCenter will provide advertiser accounts to all winners. This RFP has two tracks: - Track 1 – Semantic Computing - Track 2 – Internet Economics Microsoft encourages proposals for either track which describe innovative research using the adCenter, Live Search, and SDK assets in bold, novel, and unconventional approaches to further Internet Research and related technologies, including interdisciplinary research. Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 9:51 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology, Academics, Teaching