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    Microsoft PDC 2009

    Jump start your product and technology planning with four days of deep, technical content delivered by Microsoft leaders and technical experts. Here’s just a sampling of the workshops and sessions you’ll see at PDC09.

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    The Difference Between Being Smart, Educated, and Intelligent

    I've always been intrigued by the subject of intelligence. As a child my mother would refer to me as "smart," but I quickly noticed that all parents refer to their children as smart. In time I would discover that all children are not smart, just as all babies are not cute. If that were the case, we'd have a world full of beautiful, smart people - which we don't.

    Some of us are smart; but not as smart as we think, and others are smarter than they seem, which makes me wonder, how do we define smart? What makes one person smarter than another? When do "street smarts" matter more than "book smarts"? Can you be both smart and stupid? Is being smart more influenced by genetics or one's environment?

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