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Patrick Fischer dies at 75; target of Unabomber
Patrick Fischer, a retired computer science professor at Vanderbilt University whose secretary was injured when he was targeted by the Unabomber in 1982, has died. He was 75.
Fischer died Aug. 26 in hospice care in Montgomery County, Md., the...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Cornell University, Colleges and Universities
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Q&A: Programming Burbank Unified 2.0
When Burbank Unified’s network supervisor announced his departure earlier this year, school board members decided to take the position in a new direction. They re-penned the job description to include a significant instructional component, and hired...Tags: Apple iPhone, File Sharing, Software Industry, Ocean View, Science
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Video games get players to solve epic scientific mysteries
Video gamers spend tons of time -- for many it's 10,000 hours by age 21 -- battling mythic monsters, shooting aliens and rescuing princesses from digital castles. Adrien Treuille wants to put those efforts to better use. The Carnegie Mellon computer...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Disease Prevention, Mystery (genre), Diseases and Illnesses, Gaming
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Father of artificial intelligence dies in Calif.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator of the computer programming language often used in that field, has died. He was 84. Stanford University, where McCarthy was a professor for four...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Alan Turing, Unix, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence
![In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65685459-27181910-187105.jpg "In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies,\" but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.")
In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.
He called...Tags: Game Playing, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fraud, Computer Networking and Internet
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Grants to bring $10 million to college
Glendale Community College has been awarded two federal grants that will bring more than $10 million to the campus during the next five years, officials said. The Title V grants, awarded as part of the Hispanic-Serving Institutions program at the U.S....Tags: Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities, Education, U.S. Department of Education, Technology
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Dennis Ritchie dies at 70; computer scientist helped develop Unix
Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died. He was 70.
Ritchie died a month after his birthday, according to his biography on a Web page of Alcatel-Lucent's...Tags: Harvard University, File Sharing, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Alcatel SA, Software Industry
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Computer programming is like a puzzle for Smithsburg teen
taylor.eckel@herald-mail.comFor Suzanne Reed, an interest in computers runs in the family. "I've been really into computers for a long time. My mom teaches technology education at Smithsburg Middle School, and my brother is a computer security major," she said. Reed, 17, is the...Tags: Engineering, Technology, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Fiber optics a boon, from classroom to operating room
Leasing office space in this economy can be a challenge, especially in older buildings, but Taylor Fields is working on getting an edge: a super-fast fiber-optic broadband connection.
"One of the first things [prospective tenants] ask is what kind of...Tags: Joe Biden, Martin O'Malley, Contracts, Timonium, Colleges and Universities
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Bill Gates: How to be super-rich, or save the world trying
Nation NowBill Gates: The co-founder of Microsoft offers his words of wisdom and reflection to an audience at the University of Washington; among the questions: How does one become rich?... -
UCLA writes computer program to battle East L.A. gangs
L.A. NOWA team of UCLA researchers has once again delved into the world of crime fighting, this time developing a computer program capable of pointing police in the right direction when rivalries between street gangs erupts into violence and crime. The...... -
Foldit gamers help unlock possible AIDS-fighting protein
L.A. Times Tech BlogFoldit gamers help unlock possible AIDS-fighting protein: The next time someone tells you that playing video games is a waste of time, feel free to bring this up. Over a three week period, gamers playing Foldit, an online a protein-folding game, helped to...
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