All Things Considered, March 12, 2008 · The number of students enrolled in computer science programs is at its lowest in at least a decade.
“Comp Sci” was one of the hottest majors during the dot-com boom of the late ’90s, but the numbers dropped after the bust of 2001.
Now, despite a strong market for [...]

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Morning Edition, February 21, 2008 · Stanford University says it will no longer charge tuition to undergraduates whose parents earn less than $100,000 a year. For students whose parents make less than $60,000, the university will also waive room and board costs.
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This is old news but still deserves a mention. In case you haven’t been a student in awhile TurnItIn is a service for educational institutions. They make it compulsive for students to allow their paper to be submitted to Turnitin or receive a failing grade of 0.
The service, a profit entity, operates by archiving student [...]

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I realize this is somewhat old news, but after sitting around Calculus class playing with my TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, I decided to look around to see what has been hacked onto these things. I thought for sure some tiny distro of linux has been ported to it. I stumbled upon an open-source project called [...]

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Since I was asked by several peers in a computer course why the printer said Insert Quarter today, so I deemed this post necessary. It is amazing how unaware some people can be. This little perl script allows you to change the “Ready Message” on most HP printers to whatever you’d like. For the [...]

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