These fields include areas of nanotechnology, where the categories of physics, chemistry and biology overlap and collapse on each other so as to create new kinds of science, and quantum mechanics, where experimental outcomes are usually seen only in blackboard-based probability formulas.
The two can hardly sit still, they are so eager to show off old devices, framed media coverage and black-and-white pictures of them in front of blackboard calculations--moldering mementos of seemingly great science.
Jade Signature, a luxury building under development in Miami, will include a communal teen lounge with the latest motion-sensor videogames, a computerized blackboard system and ping-pong tables.
Cohen does not believe that Coursekit and Blackboard can co-exist within a university.
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If you ask most people, they'd tell you there's nothing wrong with the standard classroom set-up of a blackboard and chalk, or a whiteboard and dry-erase markers.
Three-year-old Blackboard, which lets visitors build their own courses, hosts more than 27, 000 classes for students from kindergarteners to corporate learners.
The trend is a boon to companies such as 15-year-old Blackboard Inc.
Roderick said sales in Blackboard's professional-services unit were hurt by brisk sales of the company's hosted solutions, which pushed some near-term revenue into future periods.
On a continuing-operations basis, Blackboard expects earnings of 20 cents to 22 cents per share for the third quarter.
Closer to home, a highly educated hedge fund manager starts tutoring his nieces and nephews with a home-made remote Web blackboard.
On a continuing-operations basis, Blackboard expects earnings of 20 to 22 cents a share for the third quarter, while the Thomson consensus is for 22 cents.
Blackboard 's ( BBBB - news - people ) takeover of WebCT in 2006 provides a counterpoint to the story of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.
"We believe that this acquisition gives Blackboard an additional presence in less-penetrated international markets, as well as large installed base to which it can upsell its product suites, " Roderick said.
Derk Haank , the science division's Amsterdam-based boss, spends an hour at a blackboard showing the company's ScienceDirect has put so much material at scientists' fingertips that cost-per-page-view has more than halved in the last three years.
On the walls, antique hunting prints sit alongside vintage beer posters and mounted animal heads, but the stripped wooden floors, leather furniture and blackboard wine list feel more Chelseachic than Cumbria-cosy.
His father, John, said the award had helped his son's confidence, following various problems at school, such as co-ordinating his writing and seeing the blackboard.
In a French grammar lesson at the College Chevereus, 11-year-olds copy word for word from the blackboard, and are corrected if they leave too wide a margin.
During the next class, the homeroom teacher called the Korean student who had touched the trumpet without permission to come to the blackboard and meted out the punishment of holding two water-filled buckets with outstretched arms.
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Derk Haank, the science division's Amsterdam-based boss, spends an hour at a blackboard proving that the company's Sciencedirect.com has put so much material at scientists' fingertips that the cost per page view has been cut by more than half in the past three years.
Today's kids do have it better--they'll never know the sound of fingernails screeching across a blackboard.
Tolkien, he reported, would write long lists of words on the blackboard, obscuring them with his body as he droned on, then would absent-mindedly erase them without turning around.
The classroom, which looks like it was lifted from a mid-20th century film set, has authentic children's desks, a blackboard and a wooden teacher's pointing rod.
Finally, there are startups like Blackboard.com and Kiko (Knowledge In, Knowledge Out) that dabble with both ad-supported free content and for-profit courseware.
Those apps include the MyLIU app, which gives students access to school services, a separate BlackBoard app for their classes, and a Citrix app for faculty and administrators accessing key university-hosted data.
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