"We have to develop the entrepreneurial spirit in the country, " Brown said in a speech at the London Science Museum, where he was announcing the new policies.

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The ability of a device to read both gestures and speech seemed like something out of science fiction, and the possibilities one could imagine with such a device were limitless.

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It is an subject which was raised by the Google chairman Eric Schmidt in a speech in Edinburgh in August, where he expressed amazement that computer science was not taught in British schools.

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The diversity of perspectives at the event was refreshing: Gail Cardew, Director of Science and Education at The Royal Institution, gave a subsequent speech on finding inspiration from family.

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The month after his speech, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal published 88 articles, nearly twice as many as the previous month, one of the biggest spikes in coverage since 2009.

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Mr Willetts announced the space Catapult in a speech that sought to lay out a vision for how the UK could maintain excellence in science and technology.

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Downing Street said the prime minister's speech was one of a series, which include his thoughts on criminal justice, health and science.

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