Sentences with phrase «led pioneering efforts»

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Lazaridis and Fregin collaborated to found the company formerly known as Research In Motion in 1984, which became Canada's leading high technology company through its pioneering efforts in smartphones.

Just days ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Anthony Levandowski, one of the pioneers of Google's self - driving car project and co-founder of self - driving trucking company Otto, would be leading all of Uber's autonomous car efforts as part of the company's acquisition of Otto.

Otto cofounder Anthony Levandowski, a former Google Car pioneer, is now leading all of Uber's self - driving efforts.

The effort has won the support of chef Alice Waters, a pioneer of «California cuisine» and a leading proponent of organic cooking.

And it is why Britain is leading the way in pioneering international efforts to crack down on modern slavery - one of the great scourges of our world - wherever it is found.

The Labour leader stated that the congress had made serious efforts to ensure reconciliation with aggrieved Labour leaders after the division in the congress caused by the outcome of the 2015 Delegates Congress of the NLC, especially the intervention of veteran Labour leaders led by the Pioneer President of the Congress, Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu.

Today Friedman is a leading proponent of the seasteading movement, an effort to create permanent floating communities in international waters that would allow «the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas of government,» he says.

Gamblin is leading the PAVE project, a pioneering effort that is revolutionizing how people look a performance data for HPC application.

She pioneered a community outreach program to connect film sets across the U.S. with the communities in which they operate and led efforts to support critical non-profit community service providers.

When Edward Muybridge photographed the first motion picture, I'll bet he never imagined his pioneering efforts would lead to a film that has a flying wolf attacking a military helicopter.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

When Appalachian State University opens its Academy at Middle Fork to 300 chosen elementary students in Winston - Salem this August, by some accounts, it'll be one of several pioneering, university - led efforts bound to turn around test scores for lagging North Carolina children in the coming years.

To support its pioneering efforts to simplify the master scheduling process, education technology startup Abl today announced $ 7.5 million in Series A funding, led by Rethink Education.

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The committee, led by Harold Shapiro, a past president of Princeton and the University of Michigan, contains some scientific luminaries, including the Nobelist Mario Molina and Syukuro Manabe, one of the pioneers in efforts to simulate the climate system using computers.

He said PG&E;'s pioneering efforts to green its grid beginning with his tenure in 2005 led people «to step back» at first.