Starting immediately after the speech, the White House will be using social media and other online resources to answer questions from the American public and respond to your ideas about rebuilding America.

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Councillor James McKay, responsible for waste services, is also due to host a webchat between 18:00 and 19:00 BST on Wednesday to answer questions online.

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Cathy Cheal, senior academic technology officer at San Jose State University in California, which recently accepted several MOOCs for credit, said the key to avoiding cheating online is to structure courses so students are constantly engaged and have to answer questions every few minutes.

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In essence, Hadoop replaces the role of OLAP (online analytical processing) in preparing data to answer specific questions.

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An online leader board was kept and automatically updated as entrants continued to answer questions correctly.

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In what is being described as the first inter-species computer chat, Koko will use her skills to answer questions from curious humans through the Internet provider America Online (AOL).

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Kalpen Modi, the Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement, invited me to answer questions from a room full of young innovators and the Twitter and Facebook online communities.

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