Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 26, 2011

I no longer do any of the scientific work I was trained to do. million they need to build the house and transport it to the Mall in Washington DC for the judging. I think their biggest issue is trying to find a transportation company who would be able to move their net-zero house from LA to DC.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) They should be great examples of accessible textbooks, and allow teachers in training to access them, parents, assistive technology developers and so on. as well as meeting with our Bookshare funders at the Department of Education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From my college dorm room, where I thought that pattern recognition could do more than target missiles, to my first successful high tech company where we built technology that could read just about any font without training, to Benetech’s founding with the Arkenstone reading machine for the blind. Washington?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. She also loves the fact that Benetech is based in California’s naturally beautiful Bay Area.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I then zipped down to DC for three days. But, we’re concerned about small nonprofits who are not Google, Facebook, Pearson or Benetech, and they aren’t able to show up in a place like DC. Google Ideas was there in force, and even as a longtime security geek I learned some things by attending one of their training sessions.

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