The Engineering Excellence Achievement Award, sponsored by Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center, is designed to recognize three outstanding teams from the Software Development category that have created solutions that demonstrate the potential to be developed to scale with focused guidance from a Microsoft engineer.

A total of 370 students representing 61 countries and regions competed in the Imagine Cup World Finals in nine categories. Winners were announced during the Imagine Cup World Festival held at the Louvre in Paris, July 8.

"The Imagine Cup provides a forum for students around the world to explore new ways to use the power of software to help address some of the world's toughest challenges," said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. "The high caliber of the students and their projects is evidence of the high level of innovation seen in the student community today, with a clear potential for real-world impact."

This is the second year in a row an RIT student participated in the Imagine Cup World Finals. In 2007, Zhou was part a four-person team that developed a software application, utilizing social-networking technology, to assist in foreign language instruction. The team also included students from Western Washington University, Texas A&M University and McGill University and competed in the software design category.

"I am thrilled to have had a second chance to compete in the Imagine Cup World Finals, and I am incredibly pleased that the judges believed our project was worthy of such a prestigious award," adds Zhou, a third-year computer science major. "The Imagine Cup event is like the Olympic Games, bringing together the best student researchers from around the globe, and I am truly honored to have had not one but two opportunities to participate."

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NOTE TO EDITORS: Team Sparx includes Ziyan (Joe) Zhou a third-year computer science major originally from China now living in Henrietta, N.Y.; Adam Risi a second-year computer engineering major from Essex Junction, Vt. and Zachery Shivers, a second-year electrical engineering major from Kenosha, Wis.

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"Simulation is the perfect tool for educators and researchers since they can realistically model any environment without the pains and costs involved with creating that environment," said Sara Morgan, CoroWare Robotic Software Engineer, and author of "Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio." "Students and researchers can experiment with a lower-cost version of CoroBot in the simulation environment, and then run their application on a real CoroBot in the classroom or lab."

CoroWare plans to make CoroWare ClassPack generally available at the end of June 2008 with two licensing options. An unlimited license will allow ClassPack to be installed and run on a single computer with no expiration date for a suggested retail price of $299, the company said.

"We are excited to see CoroWare continue to build upon its expertise in robotics simulation and its line of products," said Dan Kara, industry analyst and president of Robotics Trends. "We believe the introduction of new products to the market like CoroWare ClassPack will further drive the adoption of robotics at universities and colleges worldwide."

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Tellme will focus the next year on enabling partners to deliver and manage Tellme-based solutions. This will be done through comprehensive online training curriculums and sessions at both Tellme and Microsoft facilities nationwide.

About Tellme

Tellme fundamentally improves how people use the phone to get the information they need every day. By combining Internet data and a voice interface, Tellme's services let people simply say what they want and get it. Some of the services running on Tellme's platform include business search on 411, information search on 1-800-555-TELL as well as customer service and ordering for large-scale enterprises. Today Tellme powers billions of calls every year and is used by more than 40 million people every month. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Tellme is a Microsoft(R) subsidiary.

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The NGT Digital Voice Partner Program makes NGT's carrier-class VoIP services available to agents for the first time. Since the program's launch in April 2008, NGT has added hundreds of partners who are trained and actively selling NGT Digital Voice services.

"I'm impressed with the quality of support and resources -- it has been a higher quality than what I've seen in the marketplace," said Femi Dada, Smarthost Design Technologies in Maryland.

NGT will demonstrate its Digital Voice Service at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, July 8-10, 2008, in Houston, Texas, within the Microsoft Response Point booth (#566).

NGT's Digital Voice Partner Program offers nationwide services that work with existing broadband access and which include all the basic features businesses require including local number porting, directory listing, caller ID/CNAM, and 911 along with toll free services, desktop fax capabilities and on-demand audio-web conferencing. For more information, please visit www.ngt.com/responsepoint.

About New Global Telecom

New Global Telecom, Inc. is the leading provider of wholesale hosted and trunk-based VoIP solutions in the United States. The company's nationwide services enable VARs, cable operators, CLECs, and ISPs to deliver a high quality, complete communication solution to address business end-user needs. NGT's Network Performance Platform is a cornerstone of the service suites, and is an industry-leading network approach to delivering predictable end-user quality. NGT Digital Voice Services include a complete range of telephony features, nationwide phone service, worldwide audio & web conferencing, desktop fax services, E911 service, training and other support. For more information, please visit www.ngt.com.

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