The winners of the Informatics Touch competition were announced last Thursday (30th July 2009), with yours truly having a stake in the competition …
The remit was to design and build an innovative branch-based personal banking application for the Microsoft Surface. Here are the results …
Staff/Friends track:
1st Prize: Neelima Alluri (Personal Banking application)
Student track:
1st Prize: Kate Ho (Interactive Mortgage Guide)
The judging panel was comprised of the Research and Innovation team at RBS, alongside Dave Robertson (the new Head of Informatics).
Provisionally (pending on confirmation from HQ), Neelima will present at the next Techmeetup (12th August, Appleton Tower Level 8) about developing for the Microsoft Surface, and the applications will be able for demo too.
If you missed out this time round, Microsoft themselves have recently launched a Surface competition, which you can find out more about here.
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Awesome! Did you win anything besides prestige, coolness and satisfaction?
Yes … a little bit of money. The plan is to buy a nice macbook and do some iPhone development with it.
And I know, it is very naughty to use money won in a microsoft competition to buy apple products … 😛