Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 2, 2012
The event was hosted by Google on its campus in Mountain View, California, which is home to some of the most cutting edge technologists in the world. Raman of Google Research, a long-time Bookshare member and advisor, was on hand to help us celebrate last night. I can feel it all over, it’s a hit!” said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 12, 2014
The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. None of this is captured by the HDL’s text?
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
To that end, we need to turn inaccessible images, such as equations in a digital math book, into machine-readable information. A federal court ruled against the Authors Guild in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust’s use of books scanned by Google was fair use under U.S. often leads the way towards that better tomorrow.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 5, 2010
It’s certainly within our technical capabilities to provide a basic level of access to the information and communication capabilities of the Internet and web through broadband. Disability information clearinghouses have been set up in the past, and have failed to fully meet the need or realize the potential of such a solution.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 12, 2006
I am sure that Rod's concept is doable: may be being done already deep inside Google! Here are the comments I received from Rod: When I was in Pakistan one month after the quake, I met with multiple groups involved in information sharing among the various thousands (literally) of NGOs and governmental groups.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 13, 2005
I just completed a short paper on Google Print Accessibility. The potential of the huge scanning effort Google Print is undertaking is especially exciting for the community of people with print disabilities. Feel free to share links to this white paper with people who would be interested: Google Print Accessibility white paper.
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