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  • 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 Inside Halo 3 True Ranking System:

    If you are unable to view the above clip, please do let me know.

    Best wishes,

    Allison

  • UK High Performance Computing Award

    HPC

    Hello Everyone,

    The Windows Server HPC team have created a special award for UK Software Design competitors who use the Windows HPC Server in their Software Design solution of the Imagine Cup.

    Microsoft want to stimulate the thinking of UK students about how HPC can change the world.  We want students to think big, and to use the world’s fastest systems to solve the world’s biggest problems.  That’s what the HPC prize in the Imagine cup’s about.

    You know how mutli-core is about writing a program that uses more than one cpu?  Well HPC (High Performance Computing) is the next step up: it’s about programming for hundreds or thousands of CPUs.  This is for all the stuff that needs more compute than you can get from a single server.  Think about online gaming, when you have hundreds of people simultaneously modifying a visual database – that needs more power than you can get one a single CPU.  Think about calculating the temperature over 20,000 land sites in the UK and then projecting that forward into the future, one minute at a time, for 500 years.  This all needs heavy duty computing – and that’s HPC.  It’s the A380 of the computing world.

    To win the HPC prize you don’t need to have a working system – but tell us how your design would scale-out from one CPU to a thousand.  And explain how all that power would help.  The award will be given to the Software Design teams who demonstrate technical competency with HPC,  have a real world need for high performance computing and present the commercial viability of their implementation.

    HPC is used in lots of places – last year the two winners used HPC for genetic engineering and motorway design.  People in the UK use HPC for everything from theology to thermodynamics, archaeology to aerodynamics, gaming to genetics.  How could you use it?

    If you’ve got questions please contact your local HPC or SuperComputing Centre.  Or email Michael...

    Good luck and hope to see you at the finals.

    Best,

    Allison

  • MSDN: What’s New in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1?

    MSDN: What’s New in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1?

    Hello,

    I want to invite you along to a free half day event taking place in Exeter on 23rd October 2008 and which was created with developers in mind.

    Technical experts from the UK MSDN team will deliver a range of demos and provide insight into the latest enhancements across many areas of the .Net Framework. This is your opportunity to broaden your knowledge base and stay ahead of these latest developments.

    If you think this is something you’d like to attend, you can find out more or register by clicking here.

    In the meantime, have a lovely weekend.

     

    Allison

  • 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:

    1. Research Information Centre
    2. Creative Commons (an add-in to Microsoft Office)
    3. Article Authoring (an add-in to Microsoft Word)
    4. E-Journal Hosting Service
    5. 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • remix UK – a 48 hour conversation

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    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

  • 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

  • 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

     

     

  • Coming soon - the ability to publish your XNA game on Xbox Live Marketplace

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    We are excited to announce the impending release of XNA Games Studio 3.0 this summer giving (among other things) the ability for all XNA authors to publish games to Xbox Live Marketplace and in the process, to earn reputation, fame and even income. This represents a huge opportunity for your students. You can read all about this on the XNA Team Blog and also FAQ on the XNA forums.

     

    imageTo compliment this new development we have opened out access to the XNA Creators' Club via DreamSpark. This new programme gives access to key developer tools for all students (and academics). In addition, the XNA Creators Club website is going to get a bunch of new features too.

     

     

    Zune.netFinally, start saving up, XNA Game Studio 3.0 will also enable multiplayer gaming on the Zune over a wireless link. The Zune has not yet hit the UK market but we know you will want one when they arrive.

     

     

    Claire

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  • How software is built

     www.howsoftwareisbuilt.com  is a blog that was launched last year to gather perspectives on both the Open Source and Closed Source Development Models and to encourage wide audience feedback and inputs.  It contains numerous detailed interviews with various industry experts. If you and/or your students are interested in dialogue about open source and proprietary software development models then this is the blog for you.

    The following interviews were added in December

    · Interview with Britten Martin - Group Manager - Customer Service and Support - Microsoft

    · Interview with David Campbell - Technical Fellow - Microsoft

    · Interview with Shawn Burke - Director - Microsoft - .NET Developer Platform Group

    · Interview with Blaine Wastell and Glen Block - Patterns and Practices - Microsoft

    · Interview with Steve Morris - Director - Open Technology Center

    Claire

  • Developer Highway Code book updated and available for download

    To build software that meets your security objectives, you must integrate security activities into your software development lifecycle. This handbook captures and summarises the key security engineering activities that should be an integral part of your software development processes. Now the ever popular concise security guidance book  has been updated by Paul Maher with new chapters covering topics such as; Threat Modelling and WCF...

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    You can download the updated book in electronic form from the UK Application Security website here. Hard copies are currently only available for the original version of the book. The new version will be available as a hard copy in the New Year.

    Claire

  • Inspiration Tour Update

     

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    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

  • XNA v2 Beta - ready to download.

    Ed Dunhill is on the case again and today blogged about the XNA v2 beta which is now ready to download. His post gives all the detail you need to get started and you will be pleased to read that it is free and no uninstalling of v1 is required.

    Let us know what you think!

    Claire

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