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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...