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Tara Walker Recruits HBCUs to Join Technology Competition
Yvette Caslin over at RollingOut.com interviews Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist Tara Walker...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/21/2011
Tuskegee’s Lee Burge Takes Engineering Program to New Heights
Yvette Caslin at RollingOut.com interviewed Dean Lee Burge of Tuskegee University on his adoption of...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/21/2011
Student Creates NYC Metro App for Windows Phone 7
Casey Chan writes on Gizmodo Windows Phone 7, quietly a great looking platform, has a new NYC subway...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/21/2011
Intel TechDays–Visual Studio and Intel Parallel Studio
This free one-day course, conducted by Intel and Microsoft, gives Windows* C++ developers a great...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/15/2011
Magical Imagine Cup Tour
Robert Youngjohns, President of Microsoft North America, recently visited New York City and...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/11/2011
Steve Ballmer + Imagine Cup + Governor of PA = BEST DAY EVER!
Lindsay Lindstrom, Academic Developer Evangelist, has a recap of an amazing day that some of the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/10/2011
Realizing Your Dreams: Imagine Cup
On March 7th, 2011, Tuskegee University hosted 200 high school students from Booker T. Washington...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/10/2011
Get your app on! Students learn XNA and Silverlight Gaming at Pace Game Camp
100 students from 20 different colleges and high schools in the New York area got together at Pace...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/26/2011
It’s Official: Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011
The Official Microsoft Blog has reported that Microsoft will release a non-commercial Kinect for...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/21/2011
Imagine Cup Featured on .NET Rocks
Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson about getting students interested in...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/03/2011
Get Inspired: Take a look at these Student Game Submissions from Imagine Cup 2010
Andrew Parsons, Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist in NY, has catalogued some of the top game...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 01/21/2011
Windows Phone 7 and XBox 360 Game Camps in NY
Andrew Parsons, Academic Developer Evangelist for Microsoft based in NY, is...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 01/13/2011
Got Game: How to Keep Girls Interested in Computer Science
Greta article over on EduTopia about getting high school girls interested in technology. When the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 12/09/2010
Tufts University XNA Gaming Projects Showcased on App Hub
Ming Chow, a professor at Tufts University, chatted with us about the course he teaches using XNA...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/05/2010
Curious about Windows Phone 7–Check out this extensive review
Greg Kumparak has written an extensive review over at MobileCrunch about Windows Phone 7 with lots...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/20/2010
Mayor Bloomberg, Steve Ballmer announce Imagine Cup 2011
The International finals of Imagine Cup 2011 will be held in NYC in July 2011. Today Mayor Bloomberg...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/20/2010
New York City's government is moving to Microsoft's cloud
From the article… A $20 million deal between the Bloomberg administration and the Redmond, Wash.,...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/20/2010
Cloud Storage by David Platt
David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/19/2010
Cloud Application Architecture Patterns by David Platt
David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/19/2010
Introduction to Cloud Computing by David Platt
David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/17/2010
Ideas for Citizen-facing Phone Apps
A forum for posting application ideas has been launched… Phones are becoming ubiquitous and are...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/15/2010
Windows Phone apps look good, different than iPhone's
Wilson Rothman writes on Technolog @ MSNBC …When I skimmed through [the Windows Phone 7 Apps], I got...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/14/2010
Microsoft, Facebook unveil deeper social search on Bing
Microsoft's Qi Lu, president of Microsoft Online Services, and Facebook...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/14/2010
Why Windows Phone 7 Makes Sense for MIS Programs
Dr. James Parrish write: Windows Phone 7 was released yesterday to the world to some rave...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/12/2010
Windows Phone 7 – It’s here!
Discover &#...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/11/2010
Top Curriculum Downloads from Microsoft Faculty Connection
Below are the top downloads from our Faculty Connection site in September. It is clear that XNA is a...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/08/2010
Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch
Location Day 1 Day 2 Philadelphia 10/5 10/6 Washington DC 10/6 10/7 Boston 10/12 10/13 New York...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/23/2010
F# in Education Workshop – Nov 5th, 2010
F# in Education is a one-day workshop for educators and industrialists, to be held in...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/21/2010
The 8-Year-Old Programmer
Paul Boutin has written a piece in the New York Times Magazine about Kodu, Microsoft's XBox 360...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/21/2010
Imagine Cup 2011 to be hosted in New York City
Imagine Cup 2011 Theme: Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems. It might...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/27/2010
Microsoft DreamSpark Program provides students with Microsoft Professional Development tools for free!
Students can now build and deploy apps to Windows Phone Marketplace for free through DreamSpark...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/26/2010
BulletAsylum - Missile Command on steroids for Windows Phone 7
UberGeekGames has a preview video on their site that gives you insight into how amazing gaming can...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/26/2010
Microsoft updates Docs in time for school
Dan Worth writes about how Microsoft’s Fuse Labs has updated Docs to improve Facebook collaboration....
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/26/2010
engadget - Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview
Joshua Topolsky has an in-depth article on Windows Phone 7 over at engadget. From the article… We...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/23/2010
Windows Phone 7: See the Sample Apps
Windows Phone 7 Program Manager, Sean Mckenna, swung by the Channel 9 studio to give us a demo of...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/23/2010
Free eBook - Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7
A draft preview of a free eBook by Charles Petzold called Programming Window Phone 7 is now...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/20/2010
Windows Phone 7 + Windows Azure = Cool Game Platform
David Rousset, has written a terrific 4 part article on using Silverlight, XNA on Windows Phone 7...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/20/2010
Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch
THE SIMPLEST WAY TO BUILD BUSINESS APPLICATIONS FOR THE DESKTOP AND CLOUD Microsoft Visual Studio...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/20/2010
How Bing is out-innovating Google
Check out the Business Insider article on CNN Tech about how Bing is out-innovating Google. From the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/20/2010
Beginner Developer Learning Center - Find your path to success!
Find your path to success in a centralized learning environment that is specifically targeted to...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/20/2010
ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Patterns, Architecture and MVVM
Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company focused on delivering...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/20/2010
Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes
MSDev.com is featuring a series of 7 videos that introduce you to Windows Phone 7. Each to-the-point...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/20/2010
Exceptional Teachers Recognized at the Microsoft 2010 U.S. Innovative Education Forum
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of the 2010 U.S. Innovative Education Forum, an event in...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/02/2010
Windows Phone 7 – The First Fart Application
Developing applications for Windows Phone 7 is really easy and very cool. Visual Studio makes the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/28/2010
ARCast.TV - SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud
What do you need to know as you plan to design and deploy SharePoint solutions to Microsoft BPOS...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/28/2010
Microsoft Hohm connects to home power monitor
Microsoft Hohm is a free online application that helps consumers save energy and money. With Hohm...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/28/2010
New Microsoft Certification for Students: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) available today
Microsoft Certifications have helped many professionals start and advance their careers in the IT...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/16/2010
PDC10 Dates and Location Announced, Registration Open
For the first time ever, Microsoft’s most influential customers will converge on the Microsoft...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/15/2010
ARCast.TV - Sungard uses Silverlight 4 and Bing Map to Visualize Pipeline for Gas Trading Application
In this episode, Max Zilberman talks to Michael Heydt, Sr. Program Manager Sungard Consulting...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/13/2010
WebMatrix Top Features
WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. Here are the top WebMatrix...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/06/2010