Bill Gates visits Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006 teams
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-06-29 14:52
Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Bill Gates (L) receives a
demonstration of the Designed Digital Recovery Environment software from Ivan
Cordeiro Cardim (C) of Team Brazil, competing for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006
in Redmond, Washington, June 28, 2006. Seventy-six teams will travel to the
worldwide finals in India in August with a chance to win up to $25,000 in
prizes. Three University of Hull students created Designed Digital Recovery
Environment software to provide critically ill patients in ICU, with personal
messages, news and media delivered to the bedside with the goal of reducing the
emotional trauma caused through periods of memory loss. Looking on is team
member Carlos Eduardo Montiero Rodrigues. [Reuters]
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