Students are to be linked with tech-industry mentors, and the campus will rent space to companies, in an effort to help research get into the market.

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The search giant opened its Campus London coworking space one year ago and in that time has come to permanently house over 100 fledgling companies and hosted more than 850 events for 60, 000 guests, according to the company.

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The five-year lease includes 115, 000-square-feet of soundstage and production office space on the 22-acre campus.

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In the U.S., participating students watched their code at work over a direct transmission from the International Space Station, shown at the MIT campus.

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And classes will begin next fall in space loaned by Google to the city while the campus is under construction.

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In Unlearning Liberty, Lukianoff spends considerable time and space laying out a wide variety of examples of campus censorship that, taken together, make the point that these are not isolated incidents.

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For their remaining time in the United States, the TechGirls will participate in the Wonder Space Tech Camp, hosted on American University's campus.

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Larger than I imagined, the nine buildings that make up the campus house around 2, 500 employees and have a combined floor space of more than 1 million square feet.

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While waiting for a campus, the school has been churning out 40 graduates a year with master's degrees in space studies.

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