Microsoft Academic Initiative Andrew Sithers asithers microsoft com

Microsoft Academic Initiative Andrew Sithers asithers@microsoft. com

Academic Initiative in a Single Slide “We help institutions, faculty and students to innovate in the learning and teaching of software development” Widening Access Low cost access to our. NET development tools and platform products for use on all teaching, lab and student machines through a department-wide subscription to the MSDN Academic Alliance http: //www. microsoft. com/uk/academia/msdnaa/ Supporting Teaching Help and guidance with innovative curriculum development, teaching and research in conjunction with others in the community http: //www. microsoft. com/uk/academia/faculty/ Recognising Talent Resources and recognition for students working both in and out of class to help and encourage them to develop innovative solutions to real world problems with software http: //www. microsoft. com/uk/academia/students/

Theory

Program Motivations Nearly 30, 000 computer science students graduate every year Many have had little exposure to Microsoft technologies However, huge technology presence in the workplace Microsoft has a responsibility to support and work with academia

What is the Academic Initiative? A long-term commitment of people, resources and funding World-wide virtual team of over 200 people made up of Microsoft Research University Relations Education Solutions Group Academic Group in the Developer and Platform division

Microsoft Interfaces with Academia • Developer Education • Introduce new technology to marketplace • Academic Team Developer / Platform Group Microsoft Research ERO • Depth and blue-sky research • IP Generation • Funding Opportunities Education / Skills Group • Institution Infrastructure • Primary -> Continuing Education • Skills - MS Academy

Focus Increase technology awareness, availability and deployment Support research and curriculum development Work with thought-leaders and influencers Foster the growth of faculty and student communities

Practice

Driving Availability Shared Source Initiative For example Rotor Windows CE 5. 0 Iron Python Windows Source Bluetooth API wrapper Sharing Research Outputs For example Generics / Gyro F# Cω Conference. XP MSDN Academic Alliance…

Driving Availability MSDN Academic Alliance Subscription based access to development tools Licensed per department, including student home machines Includes: Operating Systems, SDKs, DDKs Visual Studio. NET AE Server Platforms, e. g. Windows, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Commerce Server, Biz. Talk Server, Host Integration Server, Application Center. . . Latest updates and Betas MSDN Library Dev tools for Windows. CE/Pocket. PC 2003 4 Technical Support incidents Visio Regular Updates

Working with Students Technical Roadshow Reward Excellence Student partner programme Imagine cup Student excellence awards Community the. Spoke Product Availability Student options Careers Internships Graduate scheme Ph. D scholarship programme

Working with Faculty Curriculum support Over 100 new modules developed or underway at universities around the country Industrial advisory board participation Request For Proposals (RFP) Rotor, Assignment Manager, Embedded, Curriculum Teaching and research labs Created at Strathclyde, Hull, Lancaster, Westminster and many more Prizes, bursaries, competitions and awards Technical support and assistance

References Microsoft Research Downloads http: //research. microsoft. com/research/downloads/ Microsoft Shared Source Initiative http: //www. microsoft. com/resources/sharedsource/ Microsoft Academic Alliance http: //www. microsoft. com/uk/academia/msdnaa/

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