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Caltech: Founding Values

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Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. That’s the Caltech advantage!

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

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We don’t know if the student ever gets past Chapter 1. Last month we launched a new feature for Bookshare that allows students to read books within a web browser, instead of needing additional software or tools. Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare'

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

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We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted.

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