Thai students win Imagine Cup 2007, next to be in France

August 13, 2007

A team of Thai college students have won the Imagine Cup 2007.

The students who are now named software design champions, wrote computer software to read for the illiterate left with the top prize at Microsoft’s 2007 Imagine Cup in Seoul.

Second place went to South Korean students whose software and a glove rigged with sensors converts spoken or typed words to vibrations, allowing the deaf and blind to converse.

Microsoft has updated the complete list of winners

A total of 344 students from 112 teams representing 59 countries made it to the Imagine Cup finals, which had competitions in nine categories including software, Web development and short films.

“Imagine Cup provides a forum for university students around the world to explore new ways to use the power of software to help address some of the world’s toughest problems,” said Microsoft chief strategy officer Craig Mundie.

The next Imagine Cup 2008 will be held at France and the theme will be “Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment.”