Computers

KHS takes part in program that gets computers to needy kids (Kewanee Star Courier)

16 May 2008

Kewanee High School students made it possible for a child somewhere in the world — maybe in Afghanistan, maybe in Nigeria — to have a computer for writing letters, sending e-mails, surfing the Web and doing about anything else that can be done on personal computers.

Group behind the '$100 laptop' to put Windows on computers in hopes of spurring sales (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

16 May 2008

BOSTON - The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.

Web surfers wanted: help make computers smarter (The Times and Democrat)

16 May 2008

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.