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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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Established in 2008 and based at the University of Michigan, it has grown to include 128 member institutions, according to its executive director, Mike Furlough. The headline result we found is that women were equally represented as writers of English-language fiction in the 19th century, and lost ground dramatically in the 20th,” he says.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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Our sharks were Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle; Jason Jones, a co-editor of the ProfHacker blog and director of educational technology at Trinity College, in Connecticut; and Paul Freedman, founder of Entangled Ventures, an education-technology company. Pitch 5: Mike Shannon, co-founder and chief executive of Packback.

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