A few weeks ago, my team and I were invited to compete in the US National Finals for the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Washington D.C. This was the culmination of a blistering year of hard coding, business development, and scientific research that had been spent to create a mobile application called Mobilife. In short, we had adapted existing technology to provide users with supplemental diagnostic information to assist in diagnosing vascular diseases (such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sickle cell disease, etc.). The team tag line explains it all: take a picture, save a life.
The purpose behind the Imagine Cup Competition is straightforward enough - create technologies to address the UN Millennium Development goals, such as increasing environmental sustainability and reducing child mortality rates. Lofty goals for a student-only competition, but you would be impressed at some of the ideas out there. A team out of San Jose State University, for example, developed a software suite that models the carbon footprint and electrical consumption of computer systems as a function of their workload and the components. The quality of work and sheer brilliance of those competing really showcased the potential of our generation.
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