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The Sun Shines on Academic Days in Arizona

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Thursday last week saw me dashing off the airport right after the last MVP session to catch a plane to Phoenix, Arizona, to participate in Academic Days held at the Arizona State University campus for Advanced Computing. The conference was a federated one where a number of different product groups across the company provided faculty members with introductory training on their products and academic programs.

There were five tracks that attendees could sign up for, namely

  1. The Windows Embedded Academic Program (WEMAP) track, which included 2 days of labs and training on CE, XPe, Mobile, other academic material.

  2. The Windows Academic Program (WAP) track included 1.5 days of presentations and classroom style lab sessions on Vista Kernel changes and new tools, Windows Architecture overview and comparison, hands on and review of WAP components: CRK, WRK, and ProjectOZ.

  3. The Microsoft Robotics Studio track included 1.5 days of training

  4. The Sensor Networks track, which included one day of Microsoft Research training and presentations by invited speakers.

  5. Open House -The ASU Consortium for Embedded Systems and the ASU Consortium for Embedded Systems (http://www.fulton.asu.edu/embedded/ ), each with 1 day of presentations, and .5 day of discussion sessions.

The Embedded Track was hosted by Mike Hall (Windows CE), Brian Cross (Windows Mobile) and myself (XPe). On Friday morning I presented an overview session of the XP Embedded product to about 55 faculty members, and then led two lab sessions - one on building XPe custom components and runtimes, and one on File Based Write Filter. The content was well received despite various hardware challenges like the laptops for the lab suddenly freezing up, or the performance being so bad that the tasks were taking forever to complete. I know I had gotten away lightly compared to Mike's experiences on Wednesday\Thursday - see his blog entry about his day! After his adventures getting to the conference he had all the power for his lab laptops go out as everyone powered up and he ended up running through his labs with everyone just watching, not doing.

 It was overall a great event, and my compliments go to the Academic Program folks for putting it all together. Without them we (myself, Mike and Brian) would not have had the chance to hike up Hayden Butte behind our hotel at 7.30 on Saturday morning.

- Lynda

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