Sentences with phrase «open technology fund»

The app, named 浄网 (pronounced «jingwang» in Mandarin Chinese, and literally means «cleansing the web»), extracts information including the phone number and model, and scours through its files, the Open Technology Fund reported.

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«Most of the startups Bloomberg Beta invests in and works with have an open plan,» says Karin Klein, a partner at Beta, a Bloomberg venture fund that invests in early stage technology companies.

At Denver - based Inspirato, a critical part of its latest $ 20 million funding round, led by tech - savvy firms W Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners, was its plan to open five «experience centers» in upscale U.S. malls.

Sam Hogg is a venture partner with Open Prairie Ventures, a Midwest - based venture - capital fund investing in agriculture, life - science and information technology.

Project partners were the Open University, University of Leicester and EADS Astrium UK (now Airbus Defence and Space) supported by funds from ESA, the Office of Science and Technology of the Department of Trade and Industry, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Wellcome Trust, the National Space Centre and the Millennium Commission.

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Program, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Oak Foundation, and the Open Society Institute, is working to expand the applications of geospatial technologies to human rights issues through its Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project.

Space in the new Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research — a # 235 million (US$ 338 million) publicly funded facility scheduled to open in 2019 that will be supported by six UK partner universities — is already dedicated to research on nuclear technologies.

And state officials were concerned that decreased federal funding to Connecticut universities would make them less attractive to top faculty and slow technology transfer, according to Cartiera, which is why the fund is open to universities and nonprofits as well as commercial establishments.

Open innovation is largely focused on technology transfer or intellectual - property licensing, but opportunities for funding academic research also exist.

In addition to developing formal RFP procedures, many large corporations — DuPont and Pfizer, for example — have adopted an R&D model known as open innovation, forming corporate «technology connectors» to fund external scientists and entrepreneurs to work on tightly defined problems.

The bill instructs DOE to use the extra funds to keep open the Alcator C - Mod fusion facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, which the Administration had proposed closing.

For example, whereas Markram and a few others controlled the HBP's structure and funding, the graphene project is an open network only loosely coordinated by its leaders at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology.

The program has three major components: the Director's R&D Fund, which develops new capabilities in support of the Laboratory's research initiatives, the Seed Money Fund, which is open to all innovative ideas that have the potential for enhancing the Laboratory's core scientific and technical disciplines, and the Named Fellowships, open to outstanding doctorate - level candidate scientists and engineers to achieve experience in areas of science and technology of national importance.

We acknowledge support by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Open Access Publishing Fund of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The meeting is open to a wide range of INFRAFRONTIER stakeholders including Personalised Medicine initiatives, Rare Disease networks, funders, regulators and the INFRAFRONTIER user community to discuss advances in CRISPR / Cas9 technology to model human conditions.

Additionally, through Roundtable meetings and informal networking opportunities, the roundtable has opened new communication channels between sectors, for example the Australian Research Council funded Project Young People, Technology, and Wellbeing Research Facility led by the University of Western Sydney and the recently established Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing.

Topics addressed in the open - ended questions included hardware and software purchases funded by the PT3 grant; ways in which students were using technology in learning; participation in grant - sponsored professional development activities; ways in which the knowledge and experiences from professional development activities were being used; ways in which the combination of hardware, software, and professional development affected the educators» professional, administrative, and instructional work; and their opinions of the importance of computers as tools for teaching and learning in K - 12 settings.

GEO also assists in finding a facility, funding furniture and supplies, marketing, technology and providing the professional development to staff to ensure a successful school opening.

As more schools receive funding for technology, especially through literacy initiatives that help provide ebooks and devices, and as new platforms for digital comics and digital graphic novels open up, this medium stands to make a tremendous impact.

We have worked with several open source, free software, and technology - related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period.

Thus in the Preface to Person and Object (1979) he writes «The book would not have been completed without the epoch - making File Retrieval and Editing System...» [21] Brown University's work in electronic book systems continued for many years, including US Navy funded projects for electronic repair - manuals; [22] a large - scale distributed hypermedia system known as InterMedia; [23] a spinoff company Electronic Book Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standard.

In Brussels, the European Union's Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has announced the opening of the first tranche of # 3.4 billion worth of green energy funding, to be made available with the aim of helping the bloc as a whole make use of the technology to help realise the goal of cutting overall carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 when compared to 1990 levels.

Tech that is well funded — $ 3.5 bn in the US in legal technology tells a tale — and open - source software are making the cost of solutions to problems and challenges accessible to innovators.

Only a month earlier, Obama's White House Office of Science and Technology declared a Project Open Data, intended to «accelerate the adoption of open data practices,» which goes along with the Office's February directive requiring government agencies that award research funds to develop open access policOpen Data, intended to «accelerate the adoption of open data practices,» which goes along with the Office's February directive requiring government agencies that award research funds to develop open access policopen data practices,» which goes along with the Office's February directive requiring government agencies that award research funds to develop open access policopen access policies.

The fund is open to anyone, Amazon said, who has an «innovative idea for how voice technology can improve customers» lives.»

Whether we're fighting patent trolls in court; arguing in Congress for more balanced copyright laws; or urging governments, funders, and educational institutions to adopt open access policies, EFF is committed to building a society that supports creativity and innovation, where established players in the marketplace for technology and culture aren't allowed to silence the next generation of creators.

Fred Kauber is Managing Director - Head of Marketing and Technology at CAIS, the leading open - architecture financial product platform offering independent wealth management professionals access to a diversified menu of funds and products.

Snyder, a former chairman of Gateway computers and founder of investment funds, pointed out that Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced in May that it will open a self - driving car research center in suburban Detroit and that Harman International Industries Inc., the audio and automotive technology company, opened its North American headquarters nearby.

REach ™, the strategic accelerator for technology startups created and managed by the National Association of REALTORS ®» investment fund, Second Century Ventures, announced the opening of applications to join its 2014 class.