Inside the centre are classrooms, learning labs and public exhibits designed to inspire visitors to consider the future of the Strip's neon jungle.
Incubators such as Escape, a concept featuring early adopter technology largely available only outside the U.S. Or Studio D, which was meant to help Best Buy better understand female customers and develop learning labs and class curriculum that would bring them into stores, and keep them there.
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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.
EBay labs employs economists, machine learning and machine vision experts, data miners, natural language processors and human computer interaction specialists.
In addition to providing a dedicated student entry, the William Fox Amphitheater for student orientation and an Internet reading room, the Education Center will offer high-tech, hands-on instruction through a digital learning suite, comprised of two media labs and a seminar room, and the Nam June Paik Experimental Production Studio.
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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.
Andrew Hsu, 20, started a company called Airy Labs to develop mobile and tablet social learning games for children.
The second-generation Nest Learning Thermostat is available now for pre-order directly through the Nest Labs website and will ship later this month.
California-based Nest Labs, founded by two former Apple executives, produces a thermostat capable of learning user behaviour and working out when a building is occupied or not, using temperature, humidity, activity and light sensors.
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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