Two years ago, newly pregnant and fleeing a violent partner, Briana Drummer left her life behind and checked into a family shelter. There, feeling overwhelmed, she spotted “a big, bright poster” advertising CUNY Reconnect, a program that allows adults with partial college credit to finish their degrees at the City University of New York.“I took that as a sign from God, and soon after, I stepped onto campus to begin my new life,” Drummer told a rapturous audience at Manhattan’s Jazz at Lincoln Center in March, where she spoke ahead of Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ State of the City speech. Drummer will graduate this year from CUNY’s Brooklyn College, she said, and plans to pursue her dream of attending medical school.Drummer’s story traces its origins to a specific source: the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank that has quietly emerged as a force in New York politics. CUF proposed CUNY Reconnect in a 2022 policy paper, and within months saw the idea enacted and funded with $4 million after being championed by the council speaker. Through last year, it had received another $5 million and re-enrolled more than 42,000 people in college, with 6,000 earning degrees — a pathway, supporters hope, to new lives and better-paying jobs.The council speaker drew heavily from Urban Future’s ideas in her March address, where she embraced the group’s other recent proposals to create an accelerator for minority-owned businesses and to forgive student debt so that... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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Quicksand, to be published in February 2016, comprises a series of autobiographical essays ‘about what it means to be human’A “memoir of sorts” by Henning Mankell, which the late author said was “not a book about death and destruction but about what it means to be human”, will be published next... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SourceHOV argues that artificial intelligence can obviate the need for publishers to manually create metadata tags and significantly streamline workflows. The post On Automating Metadata Extraction for Academic Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Among the titles expected to draw lots of interest are Anna Quindlen’s new novel, two projects by Karl Ove Knausgaard, an examination of artificial intelligence, and a look back by Cindy Crawford. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sounding like a character from a James Bond movie, M is Facebook's personal digital assistant. Ready to compete with the likes of Cortana, M will live inside Facebook Messenger and take artificial intelligence a step further. Rather than just helping you to find information or create calendar... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk recently said that with artificial intelligence we’re "summoning the demon", he wasn’t joking. He was genuinely concerned about artificial intelligence turning against humanity, and according to a new book by Ashlee Vance, he still is. In his new book,... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Titles in the category cross all genres and faiths, with topics ranging from cosmology to coming out. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last year at the Frankfurt Book Fair everyone was talking about digital rights. Same as the year before. With the ebook market exploding in the U.S., the fair is devoting more and more space to topics ranging from metadata to transmedia. But with the European market lagging two to three years... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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