Sentences with phrase «of earlier programs»

While at Genentech, Dr. Shepard participated in many of the early programs that transformed Genentech into a commercial success.

Some of the earliest programs for the DoD involved developing high - temperature reentry materials for missile systems reentering Earth's atmosphere.

One of the biggest trends in recent years, in school libraries, is the use of the early programming teaching tool Scratch Jr, created by MIT Media Lab.

A lot of the early programming [curriculum content] is actually about spatial programming.»

(4) EdTech Leaders Online developed by EDC was one of the earliest programs that prepared instructors in the online medium in which the instructor is supposed to teach.

Most studies have been in - depth case studies of the earliest programs; to date, only one comprehensive study (of the Teacher Quality Partnership grant) examines characteristics and impact across several programs nationally.

One of those early programs, an ecology summer camp at the West Rock Nature Center, continues to this day on the 20 - acre urban farm that is now the charter school's high school campus.

The Carnegie's Film Section was one of the earliest programs of its kind in an American museum and the collection started in 1970 continues to grow today through the efforts of the contemporary art department.

It made me think of those early programs, that Andy Warhol and Frank Stella were on, way back in the beginning of public television.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt started one of the earliest programs in Warm Springs, Georgia, at a rehabilitation facility with mineral springs.

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Home Depot also announced a new buyback program of $ 15 billion to replace an earlier one.

Moore has criticized the expansion of preschool programs, saying the government used early education to «indoctrinate youth.»

Earlier this year, his Toronto - based startup was one of 20 selected for C100's 48 Hours in the Valley program, which introduces teams to successful Canadian entrepreneurs as well as influential Valley VCs.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The program helps companies with promising early data — often obtained overseas, because of the high cost of medical testing in Canada — design and execute the key study provincial authorities need to see to sign off.

However, despite his advocacy of nation - wide programs, Farrington has a simple message for Canadians thinking about their retirement security: «We hope that this ranking can be a rallying cry to employees to be saving as much as possible, as early as possible.»

These are still early days — you can't make actual trades, and the program isn't available to the general public — but it may not be long before StockCity becomes the new Call of Duty.

Announcing Entrepreneur Factory, a program that helps early - stage companies by providing subsidized office space along with media coverage of each and every sponsored organization.

Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

Seacrest earlier this month was named permanent co-host of the «Live with Kelly and Ryan» syndicated morning show, in addition to hosting his daily radio program.

An executive board member of the European Central Bank (ECB) has told CNBC that it is too early for the central bank to start discussing a reduction in its bond - buying program.

Doll worked at Apple previously from 2003 through 2009 as a software engineer, contributing to some of the earliest iPhone apps, such as the clock, calendar, and e-mail programs.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

While the U.S. air force is retiring some of its fleet early, the cuts are very program - specific, says Doerksen.

With an early success on its hands, Econet is staking much of its future growth in Zimbabwe — and other African countries in which it does business including Nigeria, South Africa, and Botswana — on non-voice revenues that come from programs like EcoCash.

Airbus has a new senior management team coming on board in early 2019 and Myerson said that while it will be expected to address the future of the A380, investors will be focused more on the success of the A320 and A350 programs.

The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

One consequence has been the curtailment of a particularly influential program, one that targets early - stage companies.

I kicked off the birthday bright and early at Starbucks, where you can get a free drink if you're a member of the Starbucks Rewards program.

Earlier this summer, it added same - day delivery, a set - top video streaming device to its list of services for members of Prime, its $ 99 annual loyalty program.

After the Freedom Act became law in early June, the agency was granted a 180 - day grace period to get its affairs in order before putting an end to the bulk phone metadata collection program authorized by a particular portion — Section 215 — of the Patriot Act.

The separate partnerships announced Thursday are a milestone for Aurora's founders, Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell, and Chris Urmson, all early pioneers of the technology who led autonomous vehicles programs at Google (goog), Tesla (tsla), and Uber (uber).

Seeking to provide classes for kids eighteen months and up, she founded Little Kickers, a program that promotes a curriculum of early learning skills (colours, numbers, etc.) alongside a love of sport.

The latest initiative, dubbed QE3, involves buying US$ 40 billion of mortgage - backed securities every month indefinitely and extends earlier asset - buying programs.

The company is launching Vice Studios, a «global multi-platform scripted studio» aimed at developing original content that Vice can market around the world after the company signed content deals earlier this year to make its programming available in more than 80 territories by the end of the year.

«We're still in the early stages of that program, but we're hoping that there will be results showing that this technology can make a real difference to public safety in a more cost - effective way, but also in a more effective way,» Ger Daly, Global Managing Director of Defense and Public Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation Cities.

«Ambassador Power's rhetoric is entirely hollow,» Russian affairs expert Mark Kramer, the program director of the Project on Cold War Studies at Harvard, told Business Insider earlier this week.

A few of my early investors came from my alma mater, and similarly, the majority of those involved in my current round of fundraising are alumni from my own and similar academic programs.

The channel was kind of on auto - pilot while it regrouped itself from some earlier difficulties back in 2008 and 2009, so it was just a question of putting in the dollars for programming.

They also had to be members of the Windows Insider program, which is a community that tests out early versions of Microsoft's software.

The program, still in early stages of planning, is aimed at both helping janitors maximize efficiency and establishing standards and best practices for the use of robots in janitorial work, according to Brain Corporation.

The startup, which has $ 51 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Kraftwerk as well as Autodesk's Spark Investment Fund, now counts Ford as a customer in the company's early access program for its device, which isn't being sold to the general public as of yet.

Last summer, 47 full - time MBAs participated in the Entrepreneurial Summer Internship Program, which only provides a living stipend for some students working at early - stage startups, compared to 40 students in the summer of 2011.

He continued working on Minuum through the University of Toronto Early Stage Technology (UTEST) program, which acts as a pre-incubator research space for budding entrepreneurs to develop their products.

MBA programs were originally designed to professionalize the management of the industrializing economy of the early 20th century.

Earlier this week, I took part in a lively discussion of Britain's upcoming filtering of online porn on Al Jazeera's The Stream program.

By expanding the focus of the SBIC program, the initiative encouraged investors to look at early stage companies and impact investing.

3 - D test An early test of a software program that renders 3 - D objects in flat pieces.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

Indeed, according to an earlier report, shortly after the program's inception, the director was required to be away for six months of language training.