Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Now Nintendo, with a $2.7 billion U.S. market to protect, may be trying to buy some respect. It has created a $3 million fund at M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory to study "how children learn while they play." "This is not guilt money," insists Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte. The cash...
For a distinguished educator to take money from the purveyor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game may seem like the American Cancer Society soliciting funds from a cigarette company. But Papert has always been a maverick. In his seminal book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, he advocates...
WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR SEXIST? As a vigilant guardian of feminist orthodoxy, the Coalition of Labor Union Women has released its eagerly awaited Hits and Ms.s awards for 1990. Among the top transgressors: Apple Computer. One of the firm's software programs has a thesaurus that offers only a...
The earnings debacle was caused partly by fluctuations in the values of the British pound, U.S. dollar and Japanese yen, which left Philips with an estimated $110 million in currency-related losses. But there were other problems. Philips' computer division, for example, has been struggling for years in an increasingly...
At N.Y.P.L. Healy has his work cut out for him. Despite its name, the library is a private institution and has just come through a $304 million fund drive in which Gregorian, philanthropist Brooke Astor and board chairman Andrew Heiskell shook every money tree in the city. Gregorian restored the...