David G. Brown spearheaded Wake Forest's computer initiative while he was provost, and now is dean of the university's International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning.
The Brazilian government was one of the first to subsidize Linux-based PCs for its citizens with PC Conectado, a tax-free computer initiative launched in 2003.
The Circle most closely resembles Google, with its Google Glass-like retinal computers, initiatives to map far-flung parts of the world, a triumvirate running the company, antitrust investigations and a secret lab for future projects.
But computer monitors don't make great TV screens, networking won't be included in the first version's Christmas release and Microsoft's past TV-in-computers initiatives have failed dismally.
She searched for ways to increase student opportunity and ultimately landed a role leading computer science initiatives within the Oakland Unified School District.
Brian Oakley, who ran Britain's strategic computer research initiative, says: "He was an ideas man, and didn't follow through.
The city's library systems have been adept at bringing in private money and outside partners for programs like the cutting-edge "Click on @ the Library" computer instruction initiative, and "Poetry in the Branches," a program of poetry reading and writing that is a national model.
That detailed information was the result of a major computer modeling initiative undertaken by the Fed and the banks that consumed enormous resources during the 1990s.
A good portion of that increase is expected to go to a computer research initiative, designed to boost the development of new software, hardware, and communication networks.
Cullen White is the director of Teach For America's Computer Science Initiative, a former CS instructor and head of IT Academies for Prince George's County Public Schools.
