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Job Opening for Multimedia Coder in Minneapolis
Pixel Farm Interactive, the interactive multimedia agency I work for downtown in the warehouse district of minneapolis is in the process of hiring a qualified…
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Zupan Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Gustavus math major Alex Zupan has been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The Foundation…
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No Real Privacy Victory in Google Subpoena Case
Late yesterday afternoon, US District Judge James Ware denied the Department of Justice’s request to compel Google to turn over a sample of its users’…
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Visit a Math Major in the Business World
So maybe you don’t want to teach and don’t want to be an actuary or a computer geek. Is there some other way you can…
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Photo of MCS Scene Wins Contest
Of over 150 entries in the Campus Community Photography Contest, “Let Epsilon Greater Than Zero Be Given” by Maggie Sagstuen was the overall winner as…
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MCS Alumni Sweep First Decade Awards
As happens each year, the Gustavus Alumni Association is recognizing two members of the graduating class ten years ago (the class of 1996, in this…
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IdiotKin’s New CD
I always like to hear what our alumni are up to, so of course I was thrilled to get a CD in the mail today…
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Difference Engines out of Toys?
As you may or may not know, one of the first calculators (abacus excluded) was a giant gear-laden monstrosity conceived of computing pioneer Charles Babbage…
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Operating Systems Textbook Published
Max Hailperin is pleased to announce the publication of his new textbook on the principles of operating systems and middleware. This book, Operating Systems and…
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Computer science curricula, programming languages, and minds
Joel Spolsky recently posted some interesting musings about computer science education under the heading The Perils of JavaSchools. They make particularly interesting reading given the…
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