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• Microsoft Certification for Windows Embedded CE 6.0

  Hello All, I know that many of you are considering incorporating the Microsoft Certification Program into your curricula so that graduating students supplement their degrees with an industry recognised certification. With this in mind I thought you might like to know about the the free Preparation Kit for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam 70-571 together with the 50% off voucher which you can redeem against the examination until 5th January 2009. If you’d like to learn more, please click here. And good luck! Best, Allison Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:28 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Academics, Embedded, Student, Software, Software design, Graduates

• 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

• Pixel Poetry

  Hi, It was our very great pleasure to sponsor and support the Microsoft Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering 2008, at the University of Cambridge. Blue Spikes, by Sonja Findeisen-Tandel If proof were needed, these photographs exemplify the strong connection between art and science and that engineering particularly, has an inner beauty. The winning photograph, Blue Spikes, by Sonja Findeisen-Tandel, together with other stunning entries can be viewed at Microsoft Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering. Which puts me in mind on Imagine Cup 2009 and the category for best photo story. It isn’t too soon to get your students involved and thinking about the competition.  You never know, the lucky winner could be from your university and joining us in Cairo for the world finals. The next set of photographs could be of the pyramids and feluccas on Nile. For an overview of the photo story competition please visit Photo Story. All the best, Allison Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:14 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, competitions, Academics, Student, Games, Microsoft

• Gamesfest 2008

  Hello Everyone, I thought you might like to hear about Gamefest 2008 which takes place on 6th 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 25th July 2008. Gamefest 2008 is a full-day game technology conference with a keen industry focus, including a Gamefest Expo of exhibiting Games Tools and Middleware Companies together with Authorized Test Vendors and is aimed at key personnel from small game studios to the largest game publishers. There are forty talks across seven tracks ranging from Graphics to Producer & Business Development. In the Casual Games and XNA Game Studio track, for example, you will hear about Game Studio networking, performance, XNA Framework Content Pipeline and much, much more. You’ll also learn about plans to enable developers to drive the next wave of growth across the games industry. So do come along and join us for a day of serious play. Allison Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 11:21 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Technology, Academics, Games

• 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 and techniques. For example, Todd Miranda shows how to dynamically add markers to a video at runtime and Peter Bahaa shows how to handle the back and forward buttons, all in Silverlight 1.0. To browse the library of videos click here. All the best,   Allison Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 10:05 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology, Academics, Silverlight, Software

• 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

• Heroes Happen Here

  Introducing tne new HHH (Heroes Happen Here) Comic Series. This is a new daily web comic by Microsoft and Seagate that adapts tech stories from actual IT Professionals and Developers - a web comic that reflects the real lives of IT Hero's such as you. Every business day we will release a new episode driven from suggestions from the IT community. Make sure you sign up for the RSS feed and remember, we want you to help drive the story! Claire Share this: Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:56 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Academics, Microsoft

• 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 let your security lecturers and support staff know. Claire Share this: Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 8:36 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Technology, Academics, lecture, Security

• 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

• Microsoft Research PhD Scholarships 2008

  In 2004, the Microsoft European Science Initiative launched the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme and sponsored a first batch of 10 PhD Scholars. Since then Microsoft has awarded another 68 scholarships. We are now in the process of making this year’s awards, a task that will bring our total close to a hundred students– and this does not include students to be sponsored at the Max Planck Institute in Saarbrücken or students sponsored through other mechanisms! As in previous years, the majority of the applications came from the UK. The UK Academic Team would like to join with our colleagues at Microsoft Research, Cambridge in congratulating the following UK universities on their successful submissions. Birmingham, Cambridge (2), Edinburgh (2), Lancaster, Manchester, The Open University, Oxford (2), St Andrew’s, University College London (2) Congratulations to all! Claire For full details of each of the above scholarships please click here. Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:42 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Academics

• 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

• 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 today was absolutely awesome, as were the demos. Loved every minute of it from the front row. You even had me crying when you were talking about the opportunities - everything I dreamed about. Thanks to both of you. All dates are now booked but if your university has missed out then please get in touch and we will see if we can fit you into an additional slot.   Claire Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:12 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, XNA, Careers, Technology, Web, Academics, Silverlight, Embedded, Student, Software

• 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