Winners and Highlights From The Microsoft Imagine Cup

makes me wonder how much of this was learned/done by the students, and how much the teachers and parents did.

I've learned from events like this that when i talk to students and ask questions like "what highlights made you go with this design" and quickly learn that the student has no clue how it works.

Groucho Marx would say: 'Microsoft imagination is a contradiction in terms.'

Image 7 - The Note-Taker system is interesting. A further leap could help current and future generations of people that want to learn. Why don't all Universities record video/audio of their lessons? Why aren't the recorded lessons uploaded for the public? That way every human has access to all the knowledge that could want. Instead of paying 1 million dollars for 4 year tuition at Stanford, you could just download the lessons you want/need for free. Stanford is doing something along those lines with the Introduction to AI course coming up this summer. They are offering it free to anyone that wants to sign up. Why can't there be a giant database of all knowledge everyone has access to?