Computer visionary dies. (Notebook: education information from schools, business, research and professional organizations).Antonia Stone Antonia "Toni" Stone created the United States' first community technology centers. In 1980, Toni Stone set up Playing to Win (PTW). Playing to Win, a nonprofit organization dedicated to countering inequities in computer access. , a 20-year veteran teacher of prep-school mathematics and advocate for the poor and imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- , died in late November in Watertown, Mass. The New Canaan New Canaan (kā`nən), town (1990 pop. 17,864), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled c.1700, inc. 1801. It is mainly a residential town and suburb of nearby New York City. Silvermine Guild Arts Center is located there. , Conn., native was 72. About 20 years ago, Stone criticized the technology gap between the rich and poor. She addressed it by providing computers to the poor and imprisoned. She first established a program to teach former prisoners how to use computers and to bring computer-education courses into New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of prisons. In 1983, she created Playing to Win, a computer center in an East Harlem housing project. More than 1,000 centers now empower people with technology skills. |
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