Sentences with phrase «internet access project»

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Musk, 43, also has publicly talked about using satellites to provide Internet access to remote parts of the Earth, a mission that Google also has embraced in a separate project that relies on high - altitude balloons.

Project Loon in particular seems to have hatched from a genuine desire to find new ways of providing Internet access to rural areas.

«3D printing is freeing access to material objects in the same way that the computer and Internet revolutions has been liberating information for the last 30 years,» said Adrian Bowyer, the founder of one of the most popular 3D printing open source platforms, the RepRap project.

Project Loon was first incubated by the experimental Google X division in 2011, but was officially announced in June 2013 with a remit to help bring the internet to the two thirds of the world's population who still don't have access.

By 2010, two years after the project was first trialled, it was able to boast it had the «biggest internet access» of any member of the Five Eyes electronic eavesdropping alliance, comprising the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The federal government has tested the public's appetite for a Netflix tax, a new smartphone app for streaming Canadian content and spending on «moonshot» projects like placing a network of balloons on the edge of space to boost Internet access.

«It's a major project with the library to provide Internet access to the residents of Oak Park,» said Michael Papa, information...

SARANAC — Preliminary project to provide internet access to Saranac, Dannemora and other towns in need more

He also signaled he'll unveil proposals to boost the state's minimum wage to $ 15 per hour in staggered steps over about six years, address homelessness in New York City, double the money earmarked for environmental protection projects and expand broadband access to the Internet.

On Tuesday, Cuomo announced that the NY Broadband Program has $ 550 million dollars to fund projects that will extend high - speed internet access to unserved and underserved areas across the state.

MicroPasts» two projects enable anyone with Internet access to help digitize thousands of prehistoric metal artifacts housed at the British Museum.

But officials from President Barack Obama's transition team were given copies of the report, and it echoes the reasoning behind several of Obama's initiatives, such as increasing the scope of broadband Internet access and funding an Advanced Research Projects Agency within the Department of Energy.

They also called on Iraq's government to improve Internet access, stop politicizing higher education appointments, and block construction projects that threaten archaeological sites.

Google's satellite project is one of several new ventures designed to expand Internet access to remote areas of the world.

The contributors, participants in an OpenNet Initiative project, discuss tools for Internet controls that go beyond simple denial of access — such as targeted viruses, denial of service attacks, surveillance, take - down notices, and stringent usage policies.

Participating organizations are based in either Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, Ottawa or Toronto, Canada and include: American Library Association, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Center for Democracy and Technology, Citizen Lab, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Future of Music Coalition, Internet Education Foundation, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Media Access Project, National Hispanic Media Coalition, New America Foundation, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Public Knowledge, TechFreedom, and Technology Policy Institute.

The percentage of households with access to the internet is projected to continue rising throughout the period, which will expand the consumer market for online dating services.

Most of us can not image life without access to the internet for individual varying reasons ranging from social networking to doing projects to collecting Here are 30 Kickass and Interesting Facts About NBA 1 - 5 Interesting Facts About NBA 1.

It can be printed and projected and is most useful for students who have internet access.

It can be printed or projected and will be most effective in schools where students have internet access.

Today, the conversation has shifted to this question: How do we define access when the price of personal computers and related technologies has dropped dramatically over the years and, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 95 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 use the Internet?

Thanks to a large grant in 2000 from BellSouth (now AT&T South), the school now has Internet access and multiple computers in every classroom, as well as a project lab with computers and a library that can accommodate heavier computer use.

All of us have access to the internet and we use it for many different things like researching for some information for school and college projects, downloading music, pictures, wallpapers, and screen - savers, to get updates on the latest happenings all over the world, emails, instant messaging, chats, and many other things.

Roughly 17 million children and teens have Internet access in their homes, and most of them use it daily for everything from researching school projects to playing online games to sending instant messages or chatting with their classmates.

If you have only one classroom computer with Internet access, begin a project with the whole class.

Newer computers can be used for Internet access or multimedia projects that require high - speed modems or special features.

Indeed, many schools that embrace technology to drive personalized learning have actually moved in the opposite direction: extending the school day to build in time for students to do more project - and team - based learning, meet one - on - one with teachers and advisors, and even just access on - site wireless Internet.

According to those surveyed as part of Project Tomorrow's 2010 Speak Up report (PDF), more than half of middle and high school students (51 percent and 56 percent respectively) own a cell phone (without Internet access).

You'll need a computer and internet access, and it's helpful to have a projector or interactive whiteboard so these questions can be projected on the screen during the discussion.

CoSN Executive Director Keith Krueger and Project Director Susan Bearden talk about what school districts and their community partners can do to ensure all students have access to the digital resources, including high - speed internet connections outside of school, they need to succeed.

At Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, we began an internationally recognized family literacy project to provide computers and home Internet access to immigrant families AFTER parents suggested the idea, organized other parents, and worked with teachers to develop an implementation plan.

NissanConnect electronics interface with internet access, six - inch LED monitor, hands - free Pandora or Bluetooth communication system, and premium audio entertainment system are all projected to be available options for the Sentra Nismo, once it reaches the production and delivery phase.

More than twenty - five years before Brewster Kahle coined the guiding principle of his Internet Archive, «Universal access to all knowledge,» Michael Hart was putting this ideal into practice with Project Gutenberg.

While initiatives are still at work to increase global access to internet connection — such as programs like Google's Project Loon that literally plans to use high - altitude weather balloons floating over various regions around the world to provide internet access to places that otherwise wouldn't have it for decades — there's no point in having internet access if you can't afford a device to connect.

As the fourteen winners» projects have shown, there's not only still a need for library spaces, but that need has grown rather than fallen away in the face of greater internet access and device penetration.

A forthcoming study from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project to be released on April 5th will indicate what sizable percentage of survey respondents use their tablet PCs for digital reading, utilizing downloadable apps for purchasing, storing, and accessing their titles, as opposed to those consumers who purchase a dedicated e-reader device.

The project, which aims to provide free access to basic internet services on mobile, will be available exclusively to Reliance subscribers in six Indian states, with more being added at a later stage.

What this means for you: I won't be taking projects roughly between December 15 and January 15, and while I'll have occasional Internet access, it will be spotty at best.

These flexible spaces have been designed with built - in state - of - the - art presentation technology including LCD projects, drop down screens, a fully integrated sound system, and high - speed Internet access.

The accelerator will offer successful applicants focusing on cloud, internet, mobile or gaming projects mentoring, technical assistance and access to start - up targeted resources.

57) GatherContent: Lets you finish an entire project on one platform without the clutter and have access to it anywhere you've got an internet connection.

The artist Mary Ellen Carroll's project to give free Internet access to the city's poorer residents by tapping into unused frequencies along the I - 10 has an office «in the armpit of Robert E. Lee,» as Carroll described it to me from her makeshift command center in Lee Circle, where a statue of the general seems to gaze disapprovingly upon the New Orleans Museum District.

The wide range of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger variety of information about the project and its data products for a much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).

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This is another scenario that may be addressed through web harvesting projects by national libraries and the internet archive — if they are on open access.

Additional coverage of the trial court's ruling in this case can be accessed via Citizen Media Law Project, «Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions,» and law professor Eric Goldman's «Technology & Marketing Law Blog.»

A Boston - area lawyer is spearheading a project to help musicians and artists in developing countries sell their works on the Internet and obtain access to legal and dispute - resolution services to ensure protection of their intellectual property rights.

The US Impact Public Library Study is a research project examining the impact of free access to computers and the Internet in public libraries.

As Lawrence Lessig reports on his blog, the Fair Use Project of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society has filed a copyright lawsuit on behalf of scholar Carol Loeb Shloss against Joyce's grandson and only surviving heir, Stephen Joyce, who claims the right to control access to Joyce's papers and letters.

Free Law Project is a nonprofit devoted to providing the public with free access to primary legal materials on the Internet.