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Challenging Students to Achieve More Through Technology
At Microsoft, we stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through technology and innovation. To forward that mission, we were thrilled to take part in the 31st annual Tech Challenge at The Tech Museum in San Jose on April 29. This signature program of The Tech invites teams of students in grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem. This year’s challenge?
Spotlight on Leaders: Camille Llanes-Fontanilla, Executive Director, SOMOS Mayfair
To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re putting the spotlight on five community leaders in San Jose, and sharing their insights about the civic issues facing Silicon Valley, their approach to leadership, and the key projects they’ll tackle in 2018.
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeline L'Engle's exposition of the concept of multiple dimensions is in Chapter Five: "The Tesseract," of A Wrinkle in Time. Below, a dissection and analysis of her treatment of the concept from a modern and more strictly mathematical point of view… (Italicized passages are from the text and in context as much as possible)Chapter 5:The Tesseract"Yes," Mrs. Which said.
Data on, for, and with Purpose
Jake Porway of DataKind kicked off Stanford Social Innovation Review’s second annual Data on Purpose conference yesterday by joking that the event was “so much better than the conference I spoke at yesterday – Data by Accident.” Jake’s joke wasn’t (just) flippant – it actually spoke to the conference’s underlying theme, that the nonprofit sector must approach, use, and leverage data carefully and ethically.
Civic Tech in 2016: Predictions and Questions
Oh, wait, no: I’ve got a few predictions (and questions) for Civic Tech in 2016, especially in the Bay Area. In no particular order: 1. I’m calling it: the Death of the Hackathon. Let’s be honest with ourselves and admit that very few meaningful civic projects get completed in 24 hours, no matter how much pizza you throw at the problem.
What You Need To Know About Civic Crowdfunding
Civic technology is notoriously unruly, constantly disrupting the status quo in government institutions: from Presidential Innovation Fellows in the White House to the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston to Code for America’s Brigades growing in cities around the world, civic tech brings innovative approaches to old problems. Perhaps no government problem is as old – or as fundamental to civic life – as budgeting.
The 2014 Tech Awards, an Evening Celebrating Innovation for Social Good
Last night Silicon Valley dressed to the nines for the 2014 Tech Awards Gala, a yearly program presented by The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. The evening’s awards were presented to ten exceptional technologists, educators, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world, who are using technology to benefit humanity. This year the James C. Morgan Global Human itarian Award was presented to Ted Turner, founder of CNN, the United Nations Foundation and Chairman of the Turner Foundation.
Robots at Microsoft Silicon Valley: featured, not deployed
At Microsoft Silicon Valley, we host hundreds of events per year on our campus – discussions on the importance of STEM education, business forums and demonstrations of how advancements in technology will shape our future. On November 5 on our Silicon Valley Campus, we hosted Tech in Motion Silicon Valley for its event called ‘Rise of the Robots.’ They showed off interesting use-case scenarios from educational purposes and personal assistants to crime fighting.
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