New Award for Imagine Cup 2009

There 4 new awards offer to Imagine Cup 2009 competitor this year + 1 award existing award. They are Multipoint Education, Design 4 Development (aka Unlimited Potential), Interoperability Award, Parallel Computing and Hardware Design. Where is Windows Live Award? Well, I also don’t know, maybe removed from Imagine Cup 2009, maybe not.

Come check it out:

Multipoint Education Award
In many classrooms in underserved areas, groups of students must share one computer—there are simply not enough computers to go around. While the existing solution to this problem is to acquire more computers, that is often difficult for schools with limited resources.
With the Windows MultiPoint SDK several mice can be attached to a single PC – allowing students to learn, interact, and collaborate on the same computer at the same time. This makes the MultiPoint SDK the perfect tool to create learning games designed to help achieve Universal Primary Education
Reference: http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=28

Design 4 Development Award aka Unlimited Potential
At Microsoft, we believe that making technologies that are relevant, affordable, and accessible to more than 5 billion people around the world who make less than $8 dollars takes more than serious coding skills.
It takes spending time with underserved communities, interviewing and understanding end-users to learn about their needs, and the daily challenges they face with each day – the same challenges that underlie the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Reference: http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=29

Interoperability Award
Temporary no information yet.
Reference: http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=30

Parallel Computing Award
Many core systems hold the promise of delivering 10 to 100 times the processing power in the next few years. This technological advance has the potential to open a world of possibilities, from creating immersive 3D applications to addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges. Developing applications that harness the full power of manycore systems is difficult and requires software developers to transition from writing serial programs to writing parallel programs.
The objective of the Parallel Computing Award is to recognize the Team that develops parallel algorithms with demonstrable speedup on a manycore processor in order to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems.
Reference: http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=31

Hardware Design Award
Temporary no information yet.
Reference: http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=32

Imagine Cup 2009 will be fun.