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Foundation awards $4.1 million to expand tech education and build an inclusive tech workforce
...entrepreneurship, upskilling for historically marginalized communities, and ensuring underrepresented students complete their college education. The new grants aim to increase diversity in the tech workforce beginning with computer science education...
The Hidden Genius Project: leading incubator of young Black male entrepreneurs and technologists
...what you want your code to do.” That process involved envisioning a goal, coming up with a plan, and translating that plan into a computer code. Hynson’s project was writing...
Social innovation with geo data thrives at College of William & Mary
...I was scheduled to judge a research accelerator competition in which W&M students would pitch their innovative data projects. When COVID-19 shut down college campuses, we took the competition virtual....
Reflections on 'Speed Data-ing'
...but was unfamiliar with the latest tools available to do so. Within one 25-minute data-ing stop, the participant received insights into how his organization could leverage existing tools and best...
Foundation awards $9.7M to democratize data and harness the power of AI
...a collaboration between New York University and MuckRock to drive independent and investigative journalism. Combining MuckRock’s journalistic platform for Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests with an NYU-developed NLP tool (Gumshoe)...
Foundation announces first-ever Data4Change program
...Institute that enables hundreds of nonprofits with limited in-house computational power and data science expertise to use data to target, monitor and evaluate their programmatic investments. When we created the...
When crisis hits, community partnerships protect Lawrence’s families, small businesses
...facilitate that.” Among the facilitators is local nonprofit Groundwork Lawrence. “I think what’s not known about Lawrence is how strong the community is. We have a commitment to partnerships,” Heather...
The Pages of Tech History
...“Poring over the Computerworld archives gave me a newfound appreciation for how greatly technological innovation has transformed society. Computers have augmented everything from voting systems to medical testing. With each...
Meet the 2021 Patrick J. McGovern Tech for Humanity Changemakers
...website and open-source models for companies. The awards honor the visionary legacy of Patrick J. McGovern (1937-2014) who was a founding board member of CHM’s precursor, The Computer Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGtHJLC-HB4...