"These awards will help parents and students who don't have computers at home link learning at school with learning anywhere through technology, " said Secretary of Education Richard Riley.
"In our more deprived communities pupils are less likely to have computers at home, so access to computers with fast broadband at school is even more important in improving IT literacy, " she said.
It's on phones and computers, at work and home, and in the news.
Since most Hong Kong students share computers at school or at home - roughly one-third of Hong Kong households have PCs - kids can access the site according to their own schedule.
Trial participants will be able to watch the programs on their personal computers or laptops -- at home or away -- using any broadband connection.
The long-term goal is to build robots that will make people more productive at home and at work, just as personal computers do today, Wyrobek says.
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Louis and spent a lot of time at home playing with computers and studying trains.
The companies will create a 24-hour interactive games network that allows viewers to play along at home through personal computers or set-top boxes such as WebTV.
Or office workers might check up on the children at home from their desktop computers.
Waze already lets a core minority of volunteer users edit maps at home on their desktop computers.
Surrounded by computers and handheld devices at work and at home, people are accustomed to having e-mail within reach nearly all day, making it hard to shift gears on vacation, says Kate Muller, director of psychology training at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.
MP3 (and other) file formats would combine with increasingly affordable home computers to gently, but definitively, chip away at the CD's monopoly, bringing us to the present day.
Home-schooled, Lytle taught himself to program computers at age 13.
It total, 80% of teachers surveyed said they believed poverty had a negative impact on pupils' attainment - with problems including under-achievement, not having a quiet place to study at home, inability to concentrate and lack of access to computers and the internet.
Carmack grew up playing with computers in a suburb of Kansas City (he was sent to a juvenile home at 14 after breaking into a school to steal an Apple II) and quit college early to become a game programmer.
For one, Google is grouping bids for computers and tablets together, since it has found they are used in similar ways (namely at home).
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In order to keep him connected to his classroom and his schoolmates, Lombardi has given Ahmed and his teacher, Lynda Decker Gallagher, laptop computers, so Ahmed can 'go' to school while he's recovering, either at home or in the hospital.
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