The partners that make it possible
We thank the following sponsors of the Imagine Cup for their generosity and dedication to helping the world’s brightest technology students achieve their potential.
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/.
BT
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications services; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.
In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc’s revenue was £20,223 million with profit before taxation of £2,484 million.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.
For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt.
Microsoft XNA Team
XNA Game Studio 2.0 enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create videogames for Windows and Xbox 360™ using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on .NET. Combined with an active membership in the XNA Creators Club (available from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace), you can also create, debug, and play games on your Xbox 360 console. The Microsoft XNA Team is proud to be a co-sponsor of the 2008 Game Development invitational.
Microsoft Interoperability Team
Interoperability enables innovation and opportunity. Job market success comes easily to those who can recognize the opportunity for a mixed-technology solution and effectively leverage the interoperability of Microsoft products. Bright minds are constantly developing solutions that enable new interoperability scenarios, such as playing MP3, AAC, and WMA music together, or mashing up new cross-platform applications and services on the Internet. For more information, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/interop/.
The Interoperability Team sponsors the Software Design Interoperability Award. This exciting award is designed to recognize the software solution that best leverages out-of-the-box Microsoft technologies and blends them with other technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in an innovative way. The experience you gain by participating in this challenge will help you build important technical skills that are highly valued in the job market. For detailed guidelines, click here.
Microsoft Windows Live Services
The Windows Live platform of Web services provides a platform that lets your customer share information and content to create vibrant online communities and social networking spaces. This will enable partners to extend their existing applications using global, industry-leading Web services or build new Web applications that leverage Microsoft core infrastructure and Web services platform. The central focus of this powerful new platform is built around four simple ideas: Build community-driven applications; enable users to store and access information from anywhere, on any device; communicate and build connection; and maintain trust. For more information and to download SDKs, please visit dev.live.com.
The Windows Live team sponsors the Software Design Windows Live Award. The award is designed to recognize the software design solution that makes the best use of the Windows Live platform. For detailed guidelines, click here.
Microsoft Accessible Technology Team
Accessibility makes it easier for anyone to see, hear, and use a computer, and to customize their computing environment according to their own preferences, needs, and abilities. For many people, accessibility is what makes computer use possible. At Microsoft, our mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. We consider our mission statement a promise to our customers. We deliver on that promise by striving to create technology that is accessible to everyone—including people who experience the world in different ways because of impairments and disabilities.
For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com/enable/microsoft/mission.aspx.
The Accessibility Team sponsors the Interface Design Accessible Technology Award. This award is designed to recognize the user interface solution that best leverages the capabilities of Microsoft products and blends them with other technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in a new way. The due date for online submissions is May 2, 2008. For detailed guidelines, click here.
Microsoft Unlimited Potential
For more than 5 billion people, the opportunity to learn, connect, create, and succeed remains elusive. Several barriers stand in the way of effectively reaching these underserved communities, including environmental or infrastructural obstacles, localization issues, the need for personalized solutions, and the prohibitive cost of technology.
To better serve these people, Microsoft Unlimited Potential combines advanced technologies and strong partnerships with governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, and technology and service partners. Ultimately our mission is to enable sustained social and economic opportunity for those at the middle and bottom of the world's economic pyramid-the next 5 billion people.
In the short term, Unlimited Potential aims to reach the next 1 billion people by 2015 by exploring solutions in three key interrelated areas. Each is crucial to developing sustained economic opportunity:
- Transforming education
- Fostering local innovation
- Enabling jobs and opportunities
In these three areas, Microsoft Unlimited Potential can create the greatest possible impact in building a virtuous cycle of sustained social and economic development. This cycle drives communities; helps build connections to form new communities; is fueled by local and global partnerships; and, most importantly, ultimately becomes locally sustainable. Sustainability is a key indicator of effective programs and activities, and is our long-term measure of success.
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