The software also monitors school laptops if they are taken home: once plugged back into the school system the software highlights all of the activity carried out while the laptop was out of the school.
He sold off a financial services arm and began acquiring small school-software companies, piecing together what is now a soup-to-nuts school-automation-software package.
Other 2011 Grand Challenge Scholars from Duke University and Olin College pursued projects to restore urban infrastructure, improve technology for wind and solar energy, create educational software for middle school students, and develop low-cost cancer diagnostics for developing countries.
Prof Wen Weiping at the School of Software and Microelectronics at Peking University also backs these claims by telling China Daily that "cyber-sabotage" targeting China is growing rapidly.
Medbery, a former software developer, high school math teacher and Teach For America alum, built her business on the theory is that no classroom is, or should be, an island unto itself.
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Interestingly enough, some of the top minds in the cloud industry are veterans of the old-school approach to software.
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The most famous billionaire dropout is Microsoft's Bill Gates, who finally got his honorary degree from Harvard University in June, 30 years after quitting the prestigious school to sell software.
While in High School he wrote a software program that helped his parents manage CRM and inventory tracking.
For certain categories (e.g. high school sports), software-generated content makes perfect sense.
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And yes, the company is an old-school player in the software industry.
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On campus, that is a different story, as the school uses SonicWall firewall software that can detect and block unsuitable apps and content when students are in class.
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States should provide additional resources to train and employ teachers of science, technology, engineering and math, as well as increase access to the latest hardware and software for elementary and high-school students.
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He learned how to use text-to-speech software through training at the Washington State School for the Blind.
So much so that Waldorf started a software consulting company before he even began high school.
The school district responded by using sophisticated software to draw up new, more efficient bus routes.
Walcott launched a new software development competition for programs to help middle school students excel in math.
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Our school system has standardized on Google for software and Apple for hardware.
Among the most prominent Speakers for Schools was software billionaire Bill Gates, who visited a secondary school in south London.
Chase began using the software in earnest two years ago, shortly after the school was put on the city's probation list for chronically bad reading scores.
While at school, he developed an interest in computers and software, and learned computer programming as a pastime.
With the world economy and stock markets working against them, we saw great results over several years from the merger of two centuries-old tobacco companies in Europe (Altadis), an Indian soap-and-cooking-oils maker that has become of the world's leading software services providers (Wipro) and a for-profit school system that owns an incredibly successful dot.com (Apollo Group).
When Paul was in high school he and his dad worked together to write encryption software for a calculator.
But just like research has shown men are less interested in teaching pre-school, women are generally less interested in pursuing careers in software development.
In 2010 parents of a Pennsylvania high schooler sued Lower Merion School District for "spying" on their son using Absolute surveillance software.
That's something Raymond Tsao found himself wondering after hiring a friend from business school at the University of Pennsylvania to join his start-up software firm Covendis Technologies.
When I was in graduate school, I was taught that if high performance was required in a software application, it had to be written in an assembly language.
The software entrepreneur and his wife each were the first in their families to finish high school, let alone go to college, so they don't have outsize academic dreams for Shark.
His own work with ClassTop, software for the education industry, was refined through months of give-and-take with school administrators.
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