Some of last year's winners have already field-tested a motorcycle ambulance in rural Tanzania, initiated trials of an opioid addiction recovery app at the Boston Medical Center, began testing a prosthetic knee that allows patients to sit cross-legged, and completed a design of a solar-powered education hub soon to be installed in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Onstage at Disrupt, Tung will be joined by Yi Wang, the founder of the artificial intelligence-powered education Chinese education dynamo, LingoChamp (Liulishuo), to discuss the technologies and techniques that continue to power a cross-border technology revolution even in tumultuous times.
Sheikha Moza has a seat on high-powered UN education committees, but she can also harness the formidable financial resources of oil and gas-rich Qatar.
Here's a fuller look at a new report from a high-powered group of education, social justice and economic experts that suggests reforming financial aid to help improve the country's stagnating completion rates.
And every decade since the 1970s we have been promised a Brave New World IT-powered revolution in higher education (remember the e-university?).
I enjoyed learning about Lang-8, a human-powered translation and language education service; Front Media mobile video delivery; the not-quite-released Phroni plugin for Firefox (Japanese only); Appliya Studio iPhone / iPod Touch application showcase; and much more.
These were new tablets in boxes - loaded with education apps and powered by solar panels – and no instructions whatsoever were provided.
She thrived in a series of high-powered jobs, for nongovernmental agencies, promoting education and helping countries develop and manage public policy.
Mr. Jobs began Next — which the company itself spelled as NeXT — with the intention of building a high-powered computer expressly for customers in higher education, giving students and scholars what he called "a personal mainframe".
The Intel-powered Classmate PC represents not only a "netbook" for education, but also a complete platform solution that includes specific educational software and content, contributing to the goal of providing compatible, efficient, and complete solutions for schools.
