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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

• 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

• 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: Academics, Silverlight, Software, 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

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

  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.   To 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.     Finally, 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 Share this: Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:23 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Games, Software, Students, Teaching, Technology, XNA

• 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

• 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

• 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: Academics, Embedded, Robotics, Student, Teaching, Technology, Training, Web

• 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 Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:04 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Academic, Software, Technology

• 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... 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 Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:38 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Software, Teaching, Technology