Jim Fruchterman

Sight Tech Global goes live the week after Thanksgiving on December 2-3, and now’s the time to pick up a free pass! The agenda for this virtual, global event on…

Treviranus, Butler and Fruchterman to speak  at Sight Tech Global

The goal of Sight Tech Global, a virtual, global event on December 2-3, 2020, is to gather the world’s top experts who are applying advanced technologies, notably AI, to the…

Here’s the curtain raise on the Sight Tech Global agenda

Predicting the future of technology for people with visual impairments is easier than you might think.

Accessibility’s nextgen breakthroughs will be literally in your head

Social entrepreneurship pioneer Jim Fruchterman has launched a new nonprofit, Tech Matters, with $1.7 million in backing from corporate and foundation sources, including Twilio, Okta, Working Capital, Facebook and Schmidt…

Jim Fruchterman raises $1.7M for Tech Matters, a new effort to help nonprofits do tech better

With one day left to go in the federal fiscal year, the department had renewed funding for a longstanding reading program for the disabled, and it had chosen Benetech for…

Palo Alto nonprofit Benetech wins a $42.5M Dept. of Education grant, a nod to founder Jim Fruchterman’s quest to help the blind