Touch Finance Competition Launched! (10k prize fund)

The School of Informatics and Microsoft have teamed up with a financial services organisation to bring you the Touch Finance Competition.

Your challenge is to design and build an innovative branch-based personal banking application for Microsoft Surface.

Register your interest to:
-be eligible to submit your competition entry
-access to Surface SDK and emulator
- book slots on our Surface to test your application

Two competition tracks:
* Students
* Staff, Alumni, SICSA, EPIS, ETTC & other Friends

Prizes per track:
* 1st prize: £3,000
* 2nd prize: £1,500
* 3rd prize: £500

Closing date for entries: 12pm on Monday 13th July 2009

For complete information about the Touch Finance Competition please visit:
www.inf.ed.ac.uk/surface-competition

Tags: finance, informatics, microsoft, multimodal, surface

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