technology

JCPS Students, Teachers and Parents Connect Through Technology

Devin Katayama — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:04:42 +0000

Jefferson County Public Schools students will begin the year this week with 1,770 iPads in over a dozen different schools.

Louisville Puts Economic Data Online

Gabe Bullard — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:13:33 +0000

Metro Government has launched a website that features charts of local economic data.

The site features information from the Kentucky State Data Center, and some of it is painful. For instance, looking through the site, you can see that population growth has slowed, wages have dropped and employment remained flat for most of the time after the recession (but it is on the upswing now).

New Concrete Developed in Kentucky Could Save Lives

Brenna Angel, Kentucky Public Radio — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:19:28 +0000

Researchers at the University of Kentucky and a Georgetown company have developed a quick-setting concrete that could help engineers and first responders stabilize structures in emergency situations. The product is called Tekcrete Fast.