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Friday, August 29, 2008 9:13 AM

Friday Game News

OK it is the start of the long weekend – well once my wife gets back from school where she had just a little more to do to be ready for students on Tuesday. So it is time to think about some game news. OK so I’m thinking about more help to create games
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:16 PM

Fall Is Education’s Spring

I have a guest post up at the CSTA blog today. The CSTA blog is running a series of posts about people’s first day of school. That means different things to different people and I give my take at it there . I see fall as a sort of spring for education.
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Monday, August 04, 2008 6:38 AM

Workin' It at Microsoft's Videos

I ran into a number of interesting videos about people working at Microsoft over on Facebook of all places. The best part about them is not so much that these people are at Microsoft but that they show the wide diversity of people and jobs in the computer
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:24 PM

Opening On the Academic Relations Team at Microsoft

Have you ever thought “Alfred has an interesting job. I’ll bet I’d like to do that” or perhaps “I’d love to show Alfred how the job could really be done” or even “Boy I’d like to work with Alfred.” Well if so, there is an opening on the academic relations
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:16 PM

Interesting Links – 15 July 2008

I am struggling to catch up from my vacation. One of the trailing points in my activity is blogging – both reading and writing. I’ve got over 500 blog posts (mostly in the education category – aren’t you all on vacation?) to read. But I’ve come up with
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:56 PM

ACM Committee on Women in Computing Newsletter

ACM-W, the ACM Committee on Women in Computing , has just published the first edition of their newsletter. The newsletter is called "ACM-W CIS newsletter: Celebrate, Inform, Support" and the first issue is pretty interesting. The ACM-W main web page (
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:28 AM

Pitching Your Idea - An Interview About Presentations

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/29/pitching-your-idea.aspx'; Perry Lowe, a marketing professor at Bentley College and Philip DesAutels , were at the recent US Imagine Cup finals giving some presentations to the competitors.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Monday, April 28, 2008 7:58 AM

Trip Report – Summit (NJ) Schools

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/28/trip-report-summit-nj-high-school.aspx'; Last week I took a trip down to Summit High School to take part in a teacher workshop day. There were about 200 teachers from the high school and middle
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:16 AM

Getting A Job - The Blizzard Edition

This week Clint posted his interview with John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment over at Channel 8. The "money line" in the interview is something like "you know that math you think you'll never need? Well you're going to need it." John keeps his college
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:29 AM

Students 2 Business - Its About the Jobs

Students 2 Business (S2B for short) is "a Microsoft® Community Initiative designed to connect Microsoft partners and customers with qualified students for entry-level and internship positions. The objective of the S2B program is to inspire local businesses
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:29 AM

So You Want A Job in the Software Industry

Clint Rutkas has been doing a lot of interviewing lately. At a number of events he has been interviewing software professionals about what it takes and what people need to know to prepare for a career in the software industry. His most recent interview
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:50 AM

DreamSpark - Microsoft Gives Software to Students for Academic Use

OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The official press release is here BTW) So I'm kind of late to the party already. Channel 8 is going to be a key source
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:48 AM

How Rare (Game Dev Company) Recruits Graduates

Rare is one of the top game development companies in the world and is based in the UK. As you might expect there are a lot of people who want to create video games who want to work for Rare and for companies like Rare around the world. There are a bunch
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:23 AM

Update on DigiGirlz Days at Microsoft

I got this announcement this week and thought it worth sharing and reminding people that sign ups open soon. Technology career options offered for high school girls 4th Annual Microsoft DigiGirlz Day connects high school girls with Microsoft women executives
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:49 AM

Fixing the AP CS Curriculum

So as you read this it is a day or two after Christmas. You may still be full from Christmas dinner and you just want to take it easy. Or it may be that you don't celebrate Christmas and you are struggling to find interesting content to read on the Internet.
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