Sentences with phrase «first school computer»

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Systrom grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and first dabbled in computer programming while in middle school.

Gates was almost instantly obsessed with a computer when he first encountered one in eighth grade in 1968 at Lakeside School in Seattle, where he met Paul Allen, who would eventually become his business partner.

The duo fixed and sold old computers in high school, ran a web development company out of their dorm rooms in college, and worked together at O'Kelley's first advertising startup Right Media post-grad.

A Second Opinion The folks at Sift Science «are not the first people to come up with this, but they are the first making something useful of it,» notes James Cannady, professor of information assurance at the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla..

Ankumah says he first studied the «underpinnings of technology» as a high school student at an all - boys boarding school in Ghana — all without access to computers.

This past weekend Zillow and the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering school hosted «Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions» — a weekend hackathon focused on coming up with creative solutions to make it easier for first - time home buyers, low - income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.

First order of business after dealing with all of my personal crap is getting back on track with the blog, getting the 30 + recipes I have sitting on my computer, and finishing out my «Fit Kids Breakfast & Lunch» series for the 2016 - 2017 school year!

My first computer class at public school and my eyes locked with those back in the day apple computers, I just knew it was love at first sight.

Parenting Pointers - Parents Matter Most 5 Essential pointers to keep kids connected and safe, including how to Problem - Solve Aim for Balance and Health 7 Keys for a balanced life 6 Warning signs of obsession Parents Fears and Childrens Needs 8 Fears of parents and 8 needs of children Safety First Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ERSB) Codes 16 Cyber-safety recommendations Benefits of Internet and Gaming 20 Academic, social and life - skill benefits of internet and video / computer games Part Two Teaching Digital Intelligence Babies and Toddlers 0 - 2 yrs Brain Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, and Experiential Learning Preschoolers 3 - 5 yrs Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, Learning Styles, Acknowledging Feelings, Advertising, and Virtual Worlds School - Agers 6 - 12 yrs Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, Sibling Fighting, Online Learning, Inactivity, Overeating, Cyber-bullying, Netiquette, Critical Thinking, Surveillance Programs and Luring Protection Teenagers 13 - 19 yrs Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, One - time Consultation, Sharing Values, Boundaries, and Online Learning Be a Part of Their World The most important gift that children need and can not be provided virtually

Instruction: 97 instructional units... including classrooms that all feature smart boards (Dean Rusk MS is CCSD's first school to feature all touchscreen, flat - panel smart boards), computers and additional technology; computer labs; art and music rooms; gymnasium; cafetorium; and a Cyber Café media center and Global Learning Theatre... both featuring CCSD's new prototypical digital learning - friendly design!

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

There are some schools with sophisticated new computer systems in the first grade.

The governor proposes creating the Smart Start Computer Science program, providing $ 6 million in grants to train teachers in computer science and engineering, with grants going to the highest - need schoolComputer Science program, providing $ 6 million in grants to train teachers in computer science and engineering, with grants going to the highest - need schoolcomputer science and engineering, with grants going to the highest - need schools first.

At 1 p.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen will attend a professional development session for «SEP Jr.,» which is the first school - wide elementary school computer science program in New York City and will launch in schools this fall, Microsoft Technology Center, 11 Times Square, ManSchools Chancellor Carmen will attend a professional development session for «SEP Jr.,» which is the first school - wide elementary school computer science program in New York City and will launch in schools this fall, Microsoft Technology Center, 11 Times Square, Manschools this fall, Microsoft Technology Center, 11 Times Square, Manhattan.

As The Post first reported, Custom Computer Specialists could earn more than $ 1 billion over the life of a contract set for approval by the Panel for Educational Policy Wednesday to provide Internet upgrades at public schools.

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«There are some schools where they have sophisticated new computer systems in the first grade,» he said.

Correction: We lowered our figure for the proportion of secondary schools in the US offering computer science classes since this article was first published on 26 July.

The first describes Operation Reboot, a $ 2.5 million, federally funded program to train middle - aged, out - of - work computer professionals for jobs as high school computer teachers.

The school is well - known not only for the first experimental submarine, the first hydrofoil craft, the first shipboard computer, the first swath bathymeter set and dozens of other major gap - filling scientific research breakthroughs, but also for being the best in the world with several achievements such as duplex submersible vehicles, hovercrafts and gradient velocimeters.

First to support herself — and then because she had a knack for it — she became a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, teaching mathematics, English, computer science, and American history, primarily at a middle school in «a very rough neighborhood.&School District, teaching mathematics, English, computer science, and American history, primarily at a middle school in «a very rough neighborhood.&school in «a very rough neighborhood.»

Matthias Mauch, from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at QMUL, lead author of the paper, said: «For the first time we can measure musical properties in recordings on a large scale.

«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»

«The attackers now know what to expect with authentication that asks them to smile or blink, so they can produce a blinking model or smiling face in real time relatively easily,» said Erkam Uzun, a graduate research assistant in Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science and the paper's first author.

Nicholas Humphrey, a retired psychologist formerly at the London School of Economics, first proposed this idea a decade ago, but only now has evidence to support it emerged from a computer model designed by Trimmer and his colleagues.

Researchers from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, worked with UK industry to demonstrate for the first time a practical cloaking device that allows curved surfaces to appear flat to electromagnetic waves.

First author Dr Luigi La Spada also from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, said: «The study and manipulation of surface waves is the key to develop technological and industrial solutions in the design of real - life platforms, for different application fields.

«When I first learned about the technology I was really excited because bowing is what makes the violin really live,» says Kimura, who teaches a graduate class in computer music interactive performance at The Juilliard School in New York City.

Lead author Maria Panteli, from Queen Mary's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, said: «This is the first study to investigate outliers in world music with such a large scale and tracing the geographic origin of these recordings could help identify areas of the world that have developed a unique musical character.»

The first review period for the K - 12 Computer Science (CS) framework - developed by Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Association for Computing Machinery, along with more than 100 advisors within the computing community - begins February 3 with the release of the high school (grades 9 - 12) layer of concepts and...

Brian received undergraduate degrees in music and computer science from Northwestern University in1985, where he created the first dual degree program between the School of Music and the Technological Institute.

However, after the first few weeks, these same students often stopped bringing their computers to school.

The incoming freshmen are the first class to enter this high school under the One to One program, one computer for every student.

Refurbished computer systems are a great choice for schools working to extremely tight budgets, while trying to provide first rate technology to enable young people to reach their academic potential.

«I think the first question teachers need to ask themselves, whether they're buying a computer for home or school, is what are they planning to do with it,» said Fred Holmes.

The first year that Meyer Elementary School had a technology teacher, they focused on learning basic computer skills and tools, such as email, apps, and programs.

After coordinating with the school, Wang had the computer science class moved to first period so that he could teach in the morning before heading to Microsoft.

Michael explains how he tackled the massive cuts in spending, saying, «First, I carried out an audit of all computer equipment across each school, so that I could develop a replacement strategy that was in line with the 40 % reduction target.

When computers were first put in schools, the school library was often the first place they would go, and the librarian would help teach students and teachers how to actually use them.

... I go into a lot of schools and usually the first thing the principal does is bring me into the computer lab.

South Delta Elementary School is the kind of place Gov. Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi had in mind when he announced that his state was the nation's first to provide an Internet - accessible computer in every public school clasSchool is the kind of place Gov. Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi had in mind when he announced that his state was the nation's first to provide an Internet - accessible computer in every public school classchool classroom.

Now at the end of the first year of the study, Margolis has already observed how pressure to increase standardized test scores at the largely Latino school has edged «extras» like computer programming out of the curriculum.

Although the U.S. student - to - computer ratio of 5 - to - 1 is tied for first in the world, some technology - oriented countries — such as Australia, Finland, and Iceland — have more than twice the percentage of school computers connected to the Internet that the United States does.

99, knew she had her work cut out for her when she saw the computer lab at Burley Elementary School in inner - city Chicago, where she had been hired as the first - ever technology specialist one week before the school opened for the 2000 — 2001 academicSchool in inner - city Chicago, where she had been hired as the first - ever technology specialist one week before the school opened for the 2000 — 2001 academicschool opened for the 2000 — 2001 academic year.

1976 I began my career teaching high school industrial arts and then shifted to Roxbury Community College in Boston, where I started the state's first computer - assisted drafting program.

Australia's new government will continue with the development of a new digital technologies curriculum, the nation's first formal effort to teach computer science from kindergarten to year ten in every primary and high school.

Consider the school personnel who already understand, intuitively, how this principle works: the music teacher whose program has been cut in order to fund computer labs; the principal who has had to beef up security in order to protect high - priced technology; the superintendent who has had to craft an «acceptable use» agreement that governs children's use of the Internet (and for the first time in our history renounces the school's responsibility for the material children are exposed to while in school).

Available to play postalmuseum.org/learning Cracking Code Breakers at The Postal Museum Primary schools visiting The Postal Museum can book a 1 - hour interactive workshop: Cracking Code Breakers: Engineering Colossus the world's first programmable computer # 120 plus VAT per class (up to 30 pupils) To find out more, or book a visit: postalmuseum.org/for-schools Cracking Code Breakers is funded by Royal Mail and John Cass Foundation and was developed with support from the National Museum of Computing.

The celebrated physicist explained how teacher Dikran Tahta had helped him build his first computer while he was a student at St Albans School in Hertfordshire.

He continued: «Thirty years ago I helped to design the BBC Micro, the first computer created to educate and inspire children of the potential of Computer Science, yet today, when computers have become integral to every part of our lives, we see young people turned off by computing in computer created to educate and inspire children of the potential of Computer Science, yet today, when computers have become integral to every part of our lives, we see young people turned off by computing in Computer Science, yet today, when computers have become integral to every part of our lives, we see young people turned off by computing in schools.