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The newest classroom at Harvard’s business school has no desks or chairs. Instead, the professor teaches facing a towering digital screen that stretches from wall to wall, filled with the live video feeds of up to 60 students tuned in from their…
Published: August 31, 2015 at 09:15PM
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By GARY ANTONICK
Try a few short problems from The Math League, an extracurricular activity used in China to balance the tedium of studying for the Gaokao, China’s college entrance exam.
Published: August 31, 2015 at 08:00AM
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The centerpiece of the proposed 2024 Olympic Games in Los Angeles would be a $1 billion village where thousands of athletes would eat, sleep and stroll on tree-lined walks and clipped lawns.
Published: August 27, 2015 at 08:48PM
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By ELAINE GLUSAC
What you need to know if you’re on a trip or planning one soon, including multi-sport trips from Classic Journeys and a scuba festival in the Cayman Islands.
Published: August 27, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By WILLIAM GRIMES
Dr. Duke was famous for his health reports on NBC and for having attended to President Kennedy and Gov. John Connally in Dallas after the deadly shooting in 1963.
Published: August 27, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By STEVE LOHR
Mr. Traub, who founded the computer science department at Columbia, helped the emerging academic discipline garner respectability and resources.
Published: August 26, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By IAN LOVETT
The organizing committee, LA2024, projected that private partners would pick up some of the largest costs, such as the construction of the Olympic Village.
Published: August 25, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, intended as college-level work for anyone, are popping up on college applications, a sign of curiosity and, possibly, résumé packing.
Published: August 25, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By GARY ANTONICK
Can you unravel this three-dimensional puzzle by the artist and computer scientist, Ellie Baker?
Published: August 24, 2015 at 08:00AM
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The latest on wildfires in the West (all times local):
Published: August 24, 2015 at 05:09AM
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By DAVID ALAN GRIER
A call to consider how far artificial intelligence technology should go in the quest to make life better.
Published: August 22, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By WILLIAM GRIMES
Dr. Holland developed computer codes, which he called genetic algorithms, that mimicked evolutionary processes by mating and mutating possible solutions.
Published: August 19, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By WILLIAM GRIMES
Dr. Holland developed computer codes, which he called genetic algorithms, that mimicked evolutionary processes by mating and mutating possible solutions.
Published: August 19, 2015 at 08:00PM
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By JACK HEALY
A fight is playing out in national forests from North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest between backpackers seeking solitude and gun owners out for target shooting.
Published: August 18, 2015 at 08:00PM
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Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton’s homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves.
Published: August 17, 2015 at 11:19PM
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The bride and groom met at Princeton, from which they graduated.
Published: August 15, 2015 at 08:00PM
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AVELON–Richard “Rich”, of Cumberland Foreside, Maine, passed away August 3, 2015. Born March, 25th, 1966 in Oceanside, New York, son of Richard and Diane Aversano, Rich was a CUNY cum laude graduate with a BA in Computer Science and recently worked…
Published: August 6, 2015 at 08:00PM
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