Education

Dr. Maria Klawe joined the board of directors of Microsoft in 2009. She is a distinguished computer scientist, scholar and president of Harvey Mudd College. If that's not enough, she's also an accomplished artist. We had to catch up with Maria for WM_IN to learn about her…

I think we finally perfected the virtual Paul experience! Check us out this week and let us know what you think! Here's the rundown: Microsofties going back to High School  [07:42] Ballmer talks about the future [03:08] Stocking the Windows Store with quality apps [16:14] Microsoft gives..a…

Today's partially inspirational and partially something you can download and play with post is in an area that you all know is near and dear to my heart, Kinect in the STEM world (that and robots ... Kinect for life This week we had an event showcasing  medical technology innovation in…

Alice Lee is an intern at Microsoft and visited with the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Seattle as they worked on Windows Phone projects. She brings us this report. Developing a full-fledged Windows Phone app in one week – that's pretty ambitious, right? Last week, at the Academy of…

Matthew MacLaurin is the man behind Kodu (formerly Boku), a Xbox game designed to help children learn the basics of programming launching on Xbox Live this spring. Kodu is both surprisingly simple and incredibly complex, allowing a child to make a simple game, or an adult to rapidly…

Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back with a new release of his Kinect Games suite, including a new game, Word Mage... Kinect Games version 3During my adventures with Microsoft in London a week ago, I created a Windows 8 app version of my Math Mage game using Microsoft’s new TouchDevelop…

Kyril Faenov is the General Manager of the Windows HPC product unit. Before founding the HPC team in 2004, Kyril worked on a broad set of projects across Microsoft, including running the planning process for Windows Server 2008, co-founding a distributed systems project in the office…

In this screencast, Rich Ciapala demonstrates Microsoft HPC++ CompFin Lab, which integrates Microsoft HPC Server, a central market data database, and Microsoft productivity products to provide university courses with an online service to publish, execute and  manage…

During 2nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce…

Lindsay Rutter is going to be doing a series of webcasts on Silverlight 2 in June, starting on June 16th. The topics will include learning about deep zoom, learning the WPF UI framework, learning about adaptive streaming, and more. In total, there will be 6 webcasts in all. To register for any of…