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Barnes & Noble Partners With Microsoft On Digital Reading Technology

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have announced the formation of a strategic partnership in a new to-be-named Barnes & Noble subsidiary which will build upon the history of strong innovation in digital reading technologies from both companies. The partnership will accelerate the transition to e-reading, revolutionizing how people consume, create, ... Read more »
Apps, Books, Cloud Computing, Education, Gadgets and Mobile, Media, Why Microsoft
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Microsoft Returns To USA Science & Engineering Festival

Donna Woodall (Washington, DC) — Microsoft is back at the 2nd Annual USA Science & Engineering Festival to be held at the Washington Convention Center in DC on April 28-29, 2012. As an “Einsteinium Sponsor” this year, we’ll have a gigantic area including our Worldwide Telescope display, Xbox and Kinect applications to health, education, and ... Read more »
Citizen 2.0, Contests, Education, Laboratories and Research, Leadership, Why Microsoft
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Is Gainesville the Silicon Valley of the Southeast?

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – At the University of Florida – perhaps best known for its championship Gators football teams – innovation isn’t the first thing on people’s minds. But that football team famously invented what you now know as Gatorade. And now they’re building Innovation Square, which they hope spearheads their town of Gainesville into ... Read more »
Academia, Education, Entrepreneurship
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Creating High School Adjunct Computer Science Teachers

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – While nearly all aspects of modern life are being influenced by technology, the computer science industry has a dirty little secret. Despite the fact that computer science majors end up with higher lifetime earnings than just about any other major, remarkably few people actually major in computer science. In numbers: There’s about ... Read more »
Citizen 2.0, Corporate Citizenship, Education, Leadership
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Meet Five Hot New College Startups From Maryland

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Most people still approach their time spent in college in a traditional way: Try to get into the best one you can, take what you think are useful classes and get good grades, and when you get close to graduation look for a “good job.” But some of the most ... Read more »
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Gamification Of The Next Generation

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — In the media, we mostly read about how gaming is damaging how students learn and pay attention, how the cloud is mainly useful for things like movies and music, and how smartphones are useful for playing games like Angry Birds. But the reality is that while many new innovations can ... Read more »
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Temple University Opens Early Stage Biotech Incubator

Stephanie Baum (Philadelphia, PA) – A university is offering early stage companies from its academic community office space in an incubator as the institution doubles its technology transfer office staff. Philadelphia-based Temple University has opened an office in the University City Science Center that serves as an incubator for many life science and technology ... Read more »
Academia, Biotechnology, Business, Education, Entrepreneurship
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Saving Art And Creativity In Public Schools

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — In an IBM survey conducted last year, 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the number one competitive edge of the future. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently wrote that dance, music, theater, and visual arts “are essential to preparing our nation’s young people for a global economy fueled by innovation ... Read more »
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