Microsoft Code4Bill contest

Abishek Kumarasubramanian from the IIT, Madras, has won the Microsoft Code4Bill contest that Gates had announced when he was in India late last year.the IITian will have the opportunity to work with Gates and his technical assistant team in Redmond on a 1-year internship.According to Microsoft India, the team comprises the world’s top-notch techies who formulate and drive Microsoft’s technical strategy.Mr Kumarasubramanian was selected on the basis of a competition spanning over 7 months, with a registration of some 20,000 students that included three online technical challenges and two rounds of one-on-one interviews. The last of these 19 students also interned with Microsoft India for a period of two months.The final 19 students who took the internship at Microsoft India are from India’s premier technical institutes including IIT, Madras, IIT, Roorkee, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and Army Institute of Technology, Pune.