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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

The robot also has sensors, cameras, and facial recognition software to capture a child’s responses and evaluate progress. In 2015, the robot was also used to develop “autobiographical” programs used to train ISS crews. Arguably the most successful commercial robot so far, there are over 5,000 Naos operating across the world.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. This time, we validate ideas with our end users before developing the software. February 2015 We bootstrap software development and curriculum production by selling camps and weekend coding sessions at our brick-and-mortar academy.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

But colleges and universities are turning out only about 28,000 computer-science graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees per year, based on the most recent figures from 2015, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

Those funds have been crucial in supporting the work of PilotCity, which was officially established in 2015. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. The company also designed a makerspace for nearby Hayward Unified School District that year.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3 million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix. ” (Ha.