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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Microsoft Winners in Students' contest

Microsoft today announced that Slovenia has won the Eastern European regional finals in the company's third annual Imagine Cup technology competition, which is designed to enable students to develop innovations and compete on a global stage. The championship involves more than 10,000 students from more than 90 countries around the world culminating in the championship in Yokohama, Japan in July.

This year more than 61,000 students from 412 European schools, colleges and universities are participating. The top-five participating European countries are France, Germany, Poland, Romania and the UK. Last year, one-third of the teams that made the final rounds and more than half of the global winning teams were from Europe. The Imagine Cup 2004 was won by the team from France.

This year, Romania ranked among the 10 best teams. The Romanian team developed LocalPoint, a three-tier solution with a service-oriented architecture that facilitates communication between smart device users and location-specific services in the user's vicinity to suggest itineraries based on the user's profile.

The 2005 competition was won by Slovenia, with Greece and Serbia and Montenegro ranking on second and third place.

Posted by Mihai : 5/17/2005 01:23:00 pm