To win support from residents, soldiers have established new training schools and computer labs.
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Because the village had so few computers, the local authorities devised a system using school buses as computer labs.
On visits to rural schools in Africa and India I was often taken to computer labs in locked and shuttered rooms with rows of idle computers protected under plastic covers.
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Today, Empower Orphans has built five libraries, three computer labs, one sewing center and a science lab to help bridge the gap between underprivileged children and a future filled with opportunity.
Eventually this might lead to smaller collections of printed books on library shelves, but it also could free up space to meet growing community needs for meeting rooms and computer labs.
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But it follows long-standing complaints by the teachers that the computerized exams take up too much instructional time and force schools to close off computer labs for long stretches to administer the exams.
These and other education investments leverage technology in ways that make learning easier, faster and more rewarding--from facilitating distance learning, to constructing computer labs, to providing cutting-edge equipment to innovative teachers around the world.
Students work on certification as Unix system administrators, and Sun helps with curriculum design, offers teacher internships and sets up computer labs, says Leslie Bowers, Sun's enterprise network services workforce program manager in Milpitas, Calif.
The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.
She proposed a round-the-clock cyber-crime network, along with the regional computer forensic labs and a secure on-line clearinghouse for law enforcement to share information about cyber-cases.
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Similarly, while Apple's OS X's user interface is not just easy to use but engaging, it's just a candy shell built around the kind of tried-and-true Unix software that's powered everything from phone networks to computer science labs for a generation.
IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people) labs announced two major advances in computer technology today.
Symantec is the leader in the security software market and competes with McAfee (acquired by Intel), Computer Associates, AVG, TrendMicro and Kaspersky Labs.
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Each bus would drive to different schools each day, thereby sharing the computer experience among many schools rather than having stationary PC labs.
TeraGrid, which is already the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system (exceeded only by the U.S. government's weapons-testing labs, which is "closed, " or isolated inside one institution), uses 16 different computer platforms and runs seven different operating systems.
At that time, she estimates, there were about five labs working on the same topic of brain-computer interfaces.
We weren't aware that the "world's first million dollar personal computer" was quite such an envious title to achieve, but Moneual labs seems to think it's something to be proud of.
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San Fransisco-based Pyra Labs launched in 1999 with the financial backing of investors such as computer book publisher O'Reilly and Associates , and privately held magazine publisher Advance Publications .
The first computer was created at the University of Pennsylvania and the first semiconductor was invented at Bell Labs in New Jersey, yet neither one was commercialized there.
In 2001, we spun off iolo Labs as an independent research arm to understand more specifically the fundamental issues in personal computer performance and stability.
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Among the facility's chief design features on the ground floor is the digital learning suite: a large, flexible space that can be divided into two discrete media labs or function as an open auditorium for up to 100 students, with specially designed mobile computer workstations.
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Earlier this month, Bell Labs president Jeong Kim told reporters in South Korea that nanotechnology would be responsible for enormous advances in computer technology.
EBay labs employs economists, machine learning and machine vision experts, data miners, natural language processors and human computer interaction specialists.
One notable self-tracker, Gordon Bell of Microsoft Labs, keeps recording devices on him at all times, and hopes to outsource his memory to a computer, with all of his conversations and interactions key-worded and searchable.
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