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Indian students runner-up in .Net competition
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 05 March 2003, 20:30 IST
NEW DELHI: A three-member team of a Mumbai institute has stood second in the Asia Pacific Student .NET competition organised by the Microsoft Corporation.
The third year electronics engineering students of Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology, Tejas Shah, Abhijeet Akhawe and Yash Doshi have finished runners up among the 12 teams that participated in the competiton, a Microsoft release said.
They submitted a software solution for healthcare industry to empower doctors and surgeons to diagnose and treat patients more efficiently.
The other winning teams are from China, Taiwan and Singapore, it said, adding that the winners were awarded prizes by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at Next Generation Technology Forum held at Beijing recently.
The contestants were tasked to develop an original design of XML Web Services Application using the .NET framework and Visual Studio.NET.
All the four winning teams would be invited to attend upcoming Microsoft TechEd Conference in Barcelona on June 30 to July 4 and would participate in the first Worldwide Student .NET competition.
This was the second year of the .NET competition which is being organised by Microsoft to give an opportunity to the computer science, engineering and IT students to showcase their programming skills and creativity on XML Web Services in developing next generation applications, it added.