100 New Macs for Kentucky School Districts and Cancer Center Grid

As the lead in a highly innovative partnership, Rep. Rick Nelson, announced Wednesday that Bell, Pineville Independent and Middlesboro Independent school districts will each receive as many as 100 state-of-the-art Apple computers over the next year through the Kentucky Dataseam Initiative.

"The computers will be used for more advanced computer design and math and science applications, and will be fueled by new software and high-speed Internet connections," said Nelson. "When the students aren't using the computers, they won't actually be idle. Their processing power will be harnessed through a network linking more than 4,000 computers to the University of Louisville Brown Cancer Center, where the excess capacity will be used to run new cancer drug experiments."

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