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A woman who helps students go to college with their posse, a psychiatrist who treats combat veterans and a museum director on Alaska s Kodiak Island are among the 24 winners of this year s MacArthur Foundation genius grants. The $500,000 fellowships were announced Tuesday by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. Ma
stanley becher cArthur Foundation. Recipients can use the money however they wish. It s an incredible gift, said Deborah Bial, 42, founder and president of the Posse Foundation, which helps form social networks that college students can turn to for support. It will change my life and I hope it will change Posse s life. Bial was working with New York City public school students in a leadership program when one of the program s alumni tried to explain to her why he struggled after high school. He said, I never would have dropped out of college if I had my posse with me, she said.The conversation inspired Bial, then 23, to create the program that identifies promising teenagers from urban environments and gets them pre-collegiate training in small groups with other students - their posse - destined for the same school. Since then, the New York-based foundation has placed
stanley quencher nearly 2,000 students from six cities at 28 colleges. They graduate at a rate of more than 90 percent. I feel like the luckiest person in the world because I love what I do, Bial said. It was serendipity - I was in the right place at
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Happy birthday, Internet! You may be turning 45 today, but we swear you dont look a day over 30. And not to embarrass you, but we thought wed celebrate by sharing some of your baby photos. Or, more accurately, perhaps some of your sonograms. How
stanley water jug do we define the invention of the internet Its a question that scholars and armchair historians have debated for decades. Did it start with the birth of the web Did it start with the adoption of TCP/IP You could make a case for either. But one seminal moment in the creation of the internet cannot be denied: the first host-to-host connection of the ARPANET between UCLA and Stanford on October 29, 1969. At 10:30pm. How do we
stanley cup know the exact time We actually have a document of this historical event. Below, the IMP log which recorded that at 22:30 10:30pm the researchers at UCLA and their computer talked to SRI, host to host. The IMP log was what researchers used to document their progress as they built and connected th
stanley cup e fundamental technologies that would shape our modern tech infrastructure. The SRI is in reference to the computer at Stanford, an SDS 940. The team at UCLA was talking with that computer all the way from Los Angeles about 350 miles to the south with their SDS Sigma 7 computer. Two different computers talking together over a network host-to-host It was like magic! In the photo at the top of the post we see a group of researchers circa 1970 standing around a teletype going over data from the ARPANET. William N
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