We got to know about the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition from our department (CSAI) at the University of Malta. Our
supervisor encouraged us to participate in the contest and to come up
with an innovative system which would enable all students to
participate actively in all the educational activities that are carried
out in class. For this reason, we decided to take advantage of
Microsoft's new technology, Windows MultiPoint,
to develop our system, KIKI (Key to the Integration of Knowledge and
Innovation). After being chosen as the best project to represent the
University, we took part in the Maltese national Imagine Cup contest,
which we won. We then competed against Lebanon and Jordan in the East
Mediterranean regional contest and made it to the Imagine Cup Worldwide
Finals 2007 in Seoul, South Korea.
In
the meantime, Microsoft was promoting another competition as part of
Imagine Cup 2007. All teams who made use of Windows MultiPoint
technology and participated in the Software Design category were also
eligible to participate in another contest with the prospect of winning
a 4-month internship at Microsoft Research India. We
thought that this was a great opportunity for us, and thus we decided
to submit our project for this contest. On July 4, 2007, we received an
e-mail from Dr. Udai Singh Pawar to proclaim us as the winning team of
the Windows MultiPoint contest! From July 7th to October 25 2008, we
shall be at MSR India in Bangalore to undertake this internship.
More information about our team and project is available on our website, kablujendigerati.com, where you can find:
1) A scientific paper describing our system,
which we presented during the Computer Science Annual Workshop 2007
(organized by the Departments of Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence [CSAI] from the University of Malta).
2) Links to several articles about our team, project, and experience, such as the article published on the MaltaDev.NET site.
