IBM's Almaden Research Centre in San Jose, California, are doing just that.
Her tutor, Francine Patterson, will translate questions between AOL users and Koko - who will be logged on at the Foundation research centre near San Francisco where she lives.
The San Francisco Symphony returns to Southbank Centre for the first time in 19 years conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, while Antonio Pappano will return for the first time since 1998 conducting Rome-based Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia.
Situated on the Plaza San Francisco in Quito's colonial centre and opened in late 2011, Casa Gangotena is the city's newest and most celebrated luxury debut in years.
At their home in California, the American couple at the centre of the controversy, both San Francisco-based lawyers, could not be contacted.
Apple is expected to step closer towards the idea of the computer as an entertainment centre at its Macworld Expo, which starts in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Once, rich employees of San Francisco's financial and legal firms worked in the centre but chose to live in the comfortable communities down the peninsula, such as Saratoga and Menlo Park.
It wants the army to withdraw from a town near San Vicente, and consumer countries to pay for an alternative development programme and tourist centre there.
NASA's Johnson Space Centre, has recently proposed an intriguing alternative, which he outlined to the meeting in San Francisco.
ECONOMIST: The American Association for the Advancement of Science
But when UN advisers visited San Salvador in February, the attorney-general, Sonia Cortez de Madriz, an opponent of the centre-left president, Mauricio Funes, refused to meet them.
Among the giant hotels lining the harbour near the convention centre, the newest is the bright white, ultra-modern 1, 190-room Hilton San Diego Bayfront, which opened in December 2008.
Whether you are looking at London leading on congestion charging, or San Francisco leading on solar power (with a system the size of a football field on top of its convention centre), it is clear that strong civic leadership matters most of all.
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