IN THE personal-computer playground, Apple Computer was always the kid that would not share its toys.
"This is a computer-development playground," says Spencer Rascoff, chief financial officer of 165-employee Zillow.
Two versions of a computer game, Physics Playground (formerly Newton's Playground), with different degrees of linearity in gameplay sequences were compared.
In Lisa Crafts's computer-animated "Flooded Playground," a doll-like creature wanders through a vaguely foreboding landscape — so vague that, by the work's conclusion 20 minutes later, the viewer's eyes are likely to be glazed from boredom.
Others say they increasingly see pupils as young as four re-enacting violent computer games in the playground.
Our markets have become a playground for computer and data scientists who are trying to make their fortunes by writing advanced algorithmic trading strategies.
This is illegal and they are also notorious for being the computer worm and virus playground.
Personal computers provide a virtual playground for hackers, as a skillful thief can rifle through electronic data without authorization.
But in the time since Pilloton and her partner Matthew Miller arrived, they've set up a design/vocational trade high school program, crafted graphics for an ad campaign to help promote a free broadband campaign and built a computer lab and four playgrounds that teach kids math, based on a version done in Uganda.
We can fund playgrounds and computer labs.
"I want my school to have proper playgrounds, computers, bathrooms, water and electricity like all other schools," said Reed Ahmad Suleiman, 12, who helps to educate her peers by distributing health education materials and participating in the schools' radio programme.
