By: Andrew Hiller, When Ebon Upton noticed that the number and quality of students majoring in computer sciences on the decline in the United Kingdom he decided to do something about it. He designed a computer for students that sells at about 10 percent of the cost of his competitors. Eben Upton, the founder and director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, says his company has set an aim of creating a computer which would be cheap enough to be affordable to anyone and also programmable, because every year the number of people who can do some deep technical work on a computer has been on decline. Source: Voice of Russia.
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Are $25 computers a myth?
By: Andrew Hiller, When Ebon Upton noticed that the number and quality of students majoring in computer sciences on the decline in the United Kingdom he decided to do something about it. He designed a computer for students that sells at about 10 percent of the cost of his competitors. Eben Upton, the founder and director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, says his company has set an aim of creating a computer which would be cheap enough to be affordable to anyone and also programmable, because every year the number of people who can do some deep technical work on a computer has been on decline. Source: Voice of Russia.


