Wednesday, June 17, 2009

'MultiPoint' games put brothers in running for big Microsoft prize

Microsoft researchers created the technology known as MultiPoint to help students in developing nations make the most of scarce PCs, letting them work together using multiple mice on a single computer.

Brothers Jimmy, Mark and Luke Dickinson are from Tigard, Ore., but they're big MultiPoint fans, too -- which makes sense, considering that they grew up in a family of 13 children.

The Dickinson brothers used MultiPoint as the underlying technology to create a collection of educational mini-games for Microsoft's Imagine Cup student technology competition. Their project took the top award in the U.S. Imagine Cup 2009 software design category in May.

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