Sentences with phrase «last year of their program»

This workshop is suggested for seniors in Yale College or MA / PhD students in the last year of their program.

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The news of the program, announced Wednesday night, comes as a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows U.S. entrepreneurship education lagging and follows a decrease in VC fundraising last year.

SBA Administrator Karen Mills said the program led average weekly loan approvals to leap by 87 percent compared to the weekly average before the passage of last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

Last year, a machine vision program developed by Stanford researchers was able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous moles with more than 90 percent accuracy, beating out its human dermatologist counterparts — possibly a sign of what's to come in the field of AI.

«The new entrants into that over the last several years have helped to raise a lot of the excitement and innovation, and I think that's great for the space program,» Hewson said.

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

The North Korean malware program WannaCry did serious damage to computers around the world last year, but it would have been much worse if not for the rapid discovery of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.

While the cable giant's mammoth $ 5 billion purchase of exclusive rights to NHL programming last year got all the headlines, Thursday's deal with World Wrestling Entertainment is equally interesting, especially to fans of the squared circle.

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.

PARIS (AP)-- Researchers say they've discovered a worrying breed of power grid - wrecking software, saying the program was likely responsible for a brief blackout that hit Kiev late last year.

Chatbots, computer programs that mimic conversation with people by using artificial intelligence, «can transform the way you interact with the internet, from a series of self - initiated tasks to a quasi-conversation,» The Guardian declared last year.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

Last month, the BOJ adopted a 2 percent inflation target and pledged to carry out an open - ended asset purchase program from next year, bowing to pressure from Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to adopt an aggressive monetary policy to end years of deflation.

In the first quarter of last year, the average Netflix subscriber watched 161 hours of programming, Barclays says.

The programs are competitive: Last year, Durham's Startup Stampede selected 11 startups from 78 applications, offering them two months of free office space.

In September of last year, McDonald's launched an ambitious program to sell deep - fried chicken wings across its 14,000 U.S. locations.

The report indicated that while more than 78 percent of organizations have engaged in lead generation programs throughout last year, only about 17 percent of these companies are actually meeting their lead generation goals.

(AlphaGo is a «deep learning» computer program that prevailed last year over the world champion of the board game Go.)

Following launches of the Shanghai - and Shenzhen - Hong Kong Connect programs in the last few years, Chinese regulators now have plans for international and mainland investors to trade in ETF products in the Special Administrative Region, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Hong Kong media reported.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

Corinne skipped her last two years of high school in Ohio to go straight to college at age 15, enrolling at Mary Baldwin University's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted in Virginia.

Driving the program are the findings of the No Ceilings report, which showed that over the last 20 years, women have become healthier and more educated, but have not made much progress economically.

Using this method, we can estimate that the average college football player at the University of Texas is worth $ 622,104 per year (up from $ 604,921 last year) based on the program's $ 112.5 million in annual revenue.

In a previous LinkedIn survey last year, 69 percent of U.S. HR professionals said their internal mobility program is well - known among employees.

Hastings revealed Wednesday that Netflix subscribers watched 42.5 billion hours of programming last year, including 12 billion hours in the October - December fourth quarter.

As The Wall Street Journal reported last year, HTT's open model hasn't kept it from earning partnerships with the likes of engineering software firm ANSYS (anss) and UCLA's Suprastudio architecture program.

«We were getting some headway over there» with arrests last year of suspects accused of using sophisticated software programs to steal from bank accounts in multiple countries, the official said.

Last year, the program handed out $ 1.5 billion of subsidies to 12.3 million households.

• Last year GM CEO Mary Barra oversaw the launch of the Women in Action leadership development program.

That has resulted in the organisation reducing some of its community education programs that were offered to 30,000 school children last year

Last year's program included a selection of chocolate sculptures, pastry and chocolate workshops, and a fashion show where models were clothed in chocolate dresses.

During the last few years of the program's history, there has been $ 5 billion in direct investment and 85,500 directly - created full - time jobs.

Overall, Microsoft is committing $ 500 million (roughly 1.7 % of its revenue last quarter) over the next two years to help startups as part of the program, through joint sales engagements, free software, and expanded Microsoft Reactor community spaces.

Last week, the European Central Bank extended its quantitative easing program through the end of next year.

The central bank said it will extend its monetary stimulus program until at last September of next year.

Sports drink producer Gatorade, for instance, introduced a program last year that encouraged employees to sign up for one of three health - related streams: endurance, strength training and fitness.

The Lac Megantic disaster last year and the series of revelations about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program are testament to that.

He says talking about past mistakes is an important part of the bank's new - leader development program and admits that not having such a program until last year was a mistake.

Late last year, the company beefed up its Digital Media Services unit with the acquisition of upLynk, a startup that made it possible for ABC to livestream its programming, and Edgecast, a video content delivery network.

The University of North Carolina Tar Heels cut down the nets at last year's NCAA tournament, adding yet another title to the program's prestigious history.

Coca - Cola was so impressed by the sales numbers generated by the Great Gobbler Giveaway that last year it piggybacked on the rewards program with a special promotion of its own.

The program applies to homes with a maximum value of $ 750,000 and the interest - free portion of the loan will last for the first five years, with the repayment schedule at current interest rates over the remaining 20 years.

Economist Anthony Randazzo of the Reason Foundation wrote last year that QE «is fundamentally a regressive redistribution program that has been boosting wealth for those already engaged in the financial sector or those who already own homes, but passing little along to the rest of the economy.

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While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.