At this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials at The Tech, NASA’s MathTrax team was one of five carefully selected 2007 Microsoft Education Award Laureates. The team, including Robert Shelton, Terry Hodgson and Stephanie Smith, designed tecnology to teach abstract mathematical concepts to blind and ...

At this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education was among the Microsoft Education Award Laureates. The Institute founded the OER Commons with the goal of sifting through mountains of free information available online, using technology to ...

Brazillian educational broadcasting organization Canal Futura was one of the Microsoft Education Awards Laureates at this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc. Canal Futura uses technology to augment Brazil’s education system, which faces challenges like poverty as well as many different cultures and languages spread ...

This year’s recipient of the Microsoft Education Award at The Tech Awards went to TakingITGlobal, an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. With hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month, TakingITGlobal technology ...

In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O’Neal. With the intent of finding a ...

Fighting infectious diseases like Chlamydia, hepatitis B and Trachoma in developing countries is complicated because so many diseases go undetected. Diagnostic efforts are slow and expensive, and require specialialized facilities and skilled technicians. The disease may be preventable or treatable, but without effective diagnostics, millions suffer.

Two teams, the Diagnostics ...

San Jose, Calif- Nora McDevitt sat down with the 2007 Accenture Economic Development Laureate for the Tech Museum Awards, Anil Chitraker from Nepal. Anil Chitraker is with the Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness which harnessed Nepal’s 300 annual days of sun into a safer light source ...

San Jose, Calif. - At the 2007 Tech Museum Awards, Fred Davis interviewed Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel and presenter for the Intel Environmental Award.

San Jose, Calif. - At the 2007 Tech Museum Awards, Fred Davis interviewed Father Paul Locatelli, Equality Ambassador and presenter for Santa Clara University.

San Jose, Calif. - At the 2007 Tech Museum Awards, Fred Davis interviewed Jim Morgan, chairman of the board Applied Materials.

San Jose, Calif. - At the 2007 Tech Museum Awards, which showcase the power and promise of technology to improve the human condition, Fred Davis spoke with Peter Friess, president of the Tech Musuem about this year’s laureates and the plan to expand the reach of the awards ...

PUR Purifier of Water is an in-home system delivered to families in developing countries. This technology was developed by Proctor and Gamble and is one of the laureates being honored this year at the Tech Museum Awards.

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Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...