Education

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…

Interesting! It looks like HP has its own take on the “Classmate PC” concept. Its launching a $300 netbook computer aimed at schoolchildren and intended for use in classrooms. The Mini 100e Education Edition, as it’s called, will include education and security software from Microsoft, including…

Bill Gates has been in the public eye a lot as of late. First he rejoined Facebook and created a Twitter account, then he launched a new blog (The Gates Notes) and just this past weekend, he showed up at the Sundance Film Festival to help promote a documentary which he was featured in. According to…

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…

Sorry it's been so long without any blogging. Between my class at Stanford, finishing the second edition of my compression book, and a profoundly cool project that'll hopefully be announced soon, things have been beyond busy.But I've got a lot of topics in the queue I hope to get posted before IBC…

Microsoft Education Labs recently introduced a new plug-in for Moodle, the course management system (CMS) used by educators worldwide to create online courses. The open source system runs on nearly any operating system and is free to use, which is probably why it has become so popular. According to…

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…

A new service called Eduify launched on the Windows Azure platform. This service is designed to help students with their writing by providing tutorials, samples, and information about how to verify and cite sources in research papers. Edufiy also adds a social element to the writing process as…

A UK-based educational software company called RM has a Microsoft Surface game for students in development meant to show how the computer can be used in an educational setting. There’s now a (long 10-minute) video of this game in action which is available for viewing here on YouTube. The video gives…

Recently, Dr. Neil Roodyn sat down with Eric Havir from the Microsoft Surface team to talk about some of the apps Dr. Roodyn’s company, nsquared, based in Sydney, Australia, was building for the Microsoft Surface computer. The apps are designed for educational purposes, some with the focus on young…