Cuba hosts World Informatics Event

Over 1,650 experts from 58 countries meet in this capital starting Monday to exchange experiences on the use of the most modern digital technologies at the 12th International Convention "Informatica 2007." According to Cuba s Deputy Informatics and Communication Minister Jose Luis Perdomo, the main issue is how to prioritize information and communication technologies at the service of people. Read More

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Computer Science Conference to kick off monday in Havana

The 650 delegates from 58 countries and the more than a thousand Cuban delegates, registered in the International Computer Science Convention and Exhibition to kick off in Havana on Monday, February 12. Read More

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New cuban tool for children with Down Syndrome

Thanks to a software program created by the Community Computers Centers program in Cuba, children with Down syndrome are improving their language skills. Read More

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Website launched devoted to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti

The Jose Marti website of the office of Marti Programs was officially presented on Wednesday in Havana to spread information about the life, work and thinking of the world-famous Cuban. Read More

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3rd International Congress on Technology, Multimedia and Virtual Reality call

The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to the 3rd International Congress on Technology, Multimedia and Virtual Reality, that will take place from February 12th-16th, 2007, at Havana's Conventional Center of Cuba, in the middle of the 12th International Fair of Informatics "INFORMATICA 2007." Read More

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Cuban Digital Dictionary widespread

Over 130,000 primary and high school students of three Cuban provinces are benefiting from learning with the Basic School Digital Dictionary. Read More

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Cuba creates language multimedia for the deaf

Special school's teachers from the eastern province of Las Tunas created the first bilingual digital dictionary of the Cuban Sign Language (LSC), local press media highlighted Sunday. According to the island educational model Beatriz Cespedes and Elizar Rodriguez , interpreter and computing teacher of the Scholl Pelayo Paneque respectively, conceived the sign system multimedia. Read More

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Cuba launches multimedia CD on Fidel Castro

A multimedia CD embracing the most outstanding events in the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro was launched on Thursday in this capital. The CD consists of 320 photographs, 25 short videos and 9 books edited by the Cuban Institute of History (IHC), the promoter of this initiative. Read More

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Historic photos of Cuba to be exhibited

The provincial Brigadier General Jose Gomez Cardoso archive and the local Youth Computer Club will exhibit an image bank of 700 contemporary and historic photos, most of which have never before been published. Read More

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Cuban prodigy up for another Guinness Record

Yusnier Viera, the Havanian young who recently won the fourth place in the II World Olympiad of Mental Calculation, has just established a new mark that will lead him once again into the Guinness Book of Records, after identifying 56 dates among years 1600 to 2100, in one minute. Read More

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