http://blog.roboteducation.org/tansley en http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/34 <p>The <a href="http://www.roboteducation.org/">IPRE</a> team was both thrilled and honored to be awarded last month (July) the “Technical Innovation Award for Educational Impact” at the AAAI-07 Sixteenth Annual <a href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2007/aaai07robotcall.php">AAAI Mobile Robot Competition</a> in Vancouver BC, Canada.</p> <p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~stansley/IPRE/AAAI07-IPRE-TIA.png"><br /> <img alt="" src="http://research.microsoft.com/~stansley/IPRE/AAAI07-IPRE-TIA.png" width=70% height=70% /></a></p> <p><a href="http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/34">read more</a></p> http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/34#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:48:19 -0400 Stewart Tansley 34 at http://blog.roboteducation.org http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/10 <p>Hi, I'm the Microsoft Research program manager behind IPRE. My first post here is overdue! :-)</p> <p>I'd particularly like to post here now and then on the motivations behind Microsoft's support for robotics in education, especially CS (Computer Science) education, and our partnership with leading technology-oriented academic institutions like Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College. </p> <p>To kick things off, I noticed an item just got posted to Slashdot, referencing an <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/vardi-110806.html">article</a> in the Stanford Report, dated November 6, 2006: "Computer science ‘still a good career,’ leader of job migration task force says".</p> <p><a href="http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/10">read more</a></p> http://blog.roboteducation.org/node/10#comment Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:58:52 -0500 Stewart Tansley 10 at http://blog.roboteducation.org