Apple long had the reputation of providing computers to a smaller group of discerning consumers, and has used that sophisticated appeal to sell millions of iPads and set expectations of selling tens of millions more.
Pham says, "You can view Student Advantage as doing something similar to Apple Computer's program of providing computers to schools and offering them at discounts through campus stores.
Cortines decided that L.A. Unified could not afford the $1.3 billion start-up cost of providing computers to all students, teachers and campus administrators.
Glyco-Peakfinder (http://www.glyco-peakfinder.org; Maass et al. 2007) is a web-based software tool for semi-automatic de novo composition analysis of glycans, providing computer assistance in the analysis of fragmentation patterns and the laborious manual annotation of all kinds of carbohydrate MS spectra.
She has also enlisted Peter Dandreano, a Greenburgh police officer, who helps emphasize the danger of poor restraints by providing computer images of dummies slamming into the backs of passenger seats.
Various units of FAO including the Statistics Division and the Information Systems and Technology Division have cooperated with the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in the preparation of this publication, providing computer programs and data bases for the production of tables.
In the second Homebrew newsletter, he suggested the formation of a "Bay Area Home Terminal Club," to provide computer access on a shared Digital Equipment computer.
And Physiome Sciences of Princeton, New Jersey, is providing computer-based modelling systems that offer an insight into drug targets and disease mechanisms.Bioinformatics is not for the faint of heart, however.
The Los Angeles Board of Education Tuesday approved the next phase of a $1-billion 1-billion provideffortutors to every student, teacher and administrator.
What they learn will affect the future of an ongoing effort to provide computers for all students in the nation's second-largest school system.
