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Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 Winners Tap Windows Phone, Cloud and Bing
Microsofts Imagine Cup World Festival and Awards Ceremony marked the end of a six-day event covering the Imagine Cup 2011. More than 400 students from 70 countries traveled to New York to compete at the Imagine Cup 2011 finals.
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Microsoft recently announced the winners of the ninth annual Microsoft Imagine Cup, which honors student innovations that address global challenges.
More than 400 students from 70 countries were chosen from a field of more than 350,000 entrants from 183 countries to travel to New York for the finals. "We are in awe of the students' solutions for addressing social and real-world challenges, and want to help them take their projects to the next level with the financial, technical, and business support they need to change the world," says Microsoft's S. Somasegar.
Team Hermes, from Ireland, won the Software Design competition for a device that plugs into a car and monitors dangerous driving behavior and road conditions. Team NTHUCS, from Taiwan, won the Embedded Development category, with the Right This Way project, which uses a real-time wireless sensor network to compute the safest fire escape routes.
The 2011 Imagine Cup featured more female competitors than ever, including four all-women teams. Microsoft Research is using the competition as a way to promote recruitment of women in technology, says Microsoft senior researcher Jane Prey.
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