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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. Connected to the novelty factor is that. Sociability. Calming Effect (ASMR).

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Linda Doyle Blasts Through Ireland’s Academic Glass Ceiling

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She is the first woman to be provost of the country’s top-ranked university, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin. Trinity’s provost is elected by faculty members and student representatives, not a board of trustees, as happens with American university presidents. Her own field is wireless communications.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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Goldstein: Oh, that’s interesting because the—I mean, where I was going with that connection to legislation is that—I think what Bob found in the EV transition is that the knowledge base of the people who are charged with making decisions about regulations is pretty small. And— Cass: Oh, that was quite controversial.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. They achieved this firepower by hijacking 1,300 Web-connected cameras. But they usually just gripe.

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