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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: Academics, Careers, Events, Graduates, Microsoft, Students, Teaching, Technology

• 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: Academic, Academics, Channel8, Events, Graduates, Software, Student, Students, Teaching, Technology

• Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 Conference DVD sets to give away

  Good morning, I thought I’d start the week with a give-away of the ten Tech-Ed Conference DVD sets sitting on my desk. So, if you live in the UK and would like me to pop one in the post to you, email me your address details and the first ten to reply will get the goodies. Have a good week. Allison Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 3:29 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Beta, competitions, Embedded, Events, Microsoft, Security, Silverlight, Software, Technology, Training

• 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: Academics, Careers, Events, Graduates, Microsoft, Recruitment, Software, Students, Teaching, Technology, Training

• 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: Academics, competitions, Events, Games, Imagine Cup, Microsoft, Student

• remix UK – a 48 hour conversation

  Hi Everyone If you have been wondering 'where next for the web?' this event might just be for you and there is an early bird saving for the first three hundred people to book. Click here to reserve a place. And if you have any ideas for a topic you would like to see presented at remix UK and have a good idea of just who you’d like to present it, there is a chance you can get it added to the mash up. Best for the weekend, Allison Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 8:51 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Embedded, Events, Microsoft, Robotics, Silverlight, Software, Software design, Technology, Web, XNA

• 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: Academics, Events, Games, Technology

• 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: Academics, Events, MSDN AA, Software, Teaching, Technology, Training

• Mix it up!

  Hi! I'm Alfred Biehler, working with Microsoft UK alongside Claire in Microsoft's Developer platform group. My focus is on all our UK developers, and I've been given the opportunity to attend the MIX conference at Las Vegas. My expectations of the event was high, and I'm not disappointed! For starters: You can join in this amazing event by going to http://www.visitmix.com. You can see the sessions on http://sessions.visitmix.com, and/or you can even attend a UK re-run later this year in the UK... more details to come. Let me briefly share with you the biggest wow moments for me during the first keynote, that just finished: IE 8 beta is available for download now. (This beta is intended for developers). Amongst the new capabilities shown in IE8, was the ability for web apps to detect and act on losing a network connection, and a back button that really goes back - even on AJAX pages! SQL Server as a service has been announced. This is huge! I've been talking about this since the end of 1999, and it's fantastic to see this now becoming available. This would allow developers to build applications that draw data from "the cloud", without the need to manage and run the database yourself. Silverlight 2 beta 1 has been announced, with awesome demos, including how we'll experience the Olympics in a few weeks, how HardRock Cafe has a memorabilia site utilizing DeepZoom (seeing a 2bn pixel photo, zooming into any area very quickly), Aston Martin's virtual showroom experience and more. I really enjoyed seeing also some of Microsoft's partners (that also competes with us) on stage, e.g. AOL email using Silverlight, and DoubleClick (Google) for building Silverlight Adverts. And lastly - we saw demos of how Silverlight apps just worked on Nokia phones after the agreement that has been reached yesterday with Nokia to support Silverlight on their phones. One statistic that blew me away, was that we're getting about 1.5 million downloads and installs of Silverlight per day. If you do have a moment - go and have a look at the sessions @ Mix online! Alfred Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:29 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Beta, Events, Microsoft, Silverlight, Software design, Technology, Web

• 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 UI concepts he discusses in the tutorial series will all be very familiar.  If you haven't used WPF before, the tutorials should provide a good overview of the fundamental programming concepts in it, and hopefully provide you with the basic knowledge necessary to start building Silverlight 2 applications with VS 2008 when Beta1 comes out. Claire Technorati Tags: Silverlight, tutorials, teaching Share this: Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:24 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• 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 year (Feb 29th 2008). To find out who is speaking and how to register please visit the AIC site and please do so soon as places go fast.   Claire Share this: Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:29 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Teaching, Technology

• Joining instructions for the Bletchley Park SIlverlight Academic Day

  Last week we announced that we are accepting registrations for our Silverlight Academic Day at Bletchley Park on March 12th. This event is aimed at both designers and developers and we are pleased to say that we are almost sold out of developer seats. If you have already pre-registered by emailing me then we have reserved your seat but you now need to obtain your joining instructions by calling: 0870 166 6630 If you would like to reserve one of the remaining seats then please also call the number. Any questions, please let me know Claire Share this: Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 6:54 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Microsoft, Silverlight

• 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: Academics, Events, lecture, Security, Technology

• 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: Academics, Careers, Embedded, Events, Imagine Cup, Silverlight, Software, Student, Technology, Web, XNA

• Embedded Technologies in UK Universities

  This year we have been running an Embedded Technologies Pilot Project with a number of UK Universities... Westminster UWE Aberystwyth Hull Hertfordshire Wolverhampton Birmingham Staffordshire Glasgow Caledonian London Metropolitan Manchester Metropolitan Lancaster ...with the aim of exploring how best to teach this subject, how to use the Compact MIcro-Framework and how industry partners such as Intrinsyc, MPC Data, Alpha Micro and Direct Insight can provide support. The next meeting is at the University of Westminster on December 19th. At this event the universities will present their findings in articles, presentations and exhibits and discuss the way forward. If you are a UK lecturer with an interest in this field and would like to come along then please let me know. Claire Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:03 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Embedded, Events, Teaching