Gifted teachers use technology to excite special ed kids:
- “If you’re inclined to see the glass as half empty, you might feel sorry for special-needs children in Louisiana’s Washington Parish – one of the poorest regions in a state with some of the highest levels of poverty, illiteracy, and dropouts in the US. And that was before Hurricane Katrina . . .”
- “Fishing is big business in the coastal villages of Newfoundland, so when the population of Atlantic cod off the province's east coast dropped by an order of magnitude in the early 1990s, the economic consequences were devastating.”
- “It came from outer space. Well, sort of.”
- “Patients whose brain injuries land them in a neurotrauma ICU are connected to a dozen or more clinical monitoring devices. But when it comes to using the data produced by those machines, neurosurgeons lack the rigorous analytical tools that are commonplace in virtually every other industry.”
- “Continuing on the current trajectory, our storage environment would balloon from 20 petabytes in 2007 to 90 in 2012, and our storage TCO would double. By taking a holistic approach to storage optimization, we identified opportunities . . .”
- “Nigeria is one of the bright stars of sub-Saharan Africa. But like most African nations, it faces a massive digital divide.”