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Autism Study: Baby's Babble May Contain Vital Clues

By Traci WatsonJul 19th 2010 – 12:55PM
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(July 19) -- To a parent's ears, there's nothing more enchanting than the babble of a child learning to talk. Now research shows that those nonsense syllables could contain coded signals that a toddler is autistic. In a study released today, scientists report that they have designed a computer program that can distinguish...

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Sanjay Sanghoee: SEC Should Use Wall Street Technology to Detect Corporate Crime

By Sanjay Sanghoee Jun 01st 2012 - 03:31PM

In my article last week on funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( "Wall Street Reform: Taking a Knife to a Gunfight" ), I advocated increasing the budget for the agency to better enable it to police Wall Street.

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MaKey MaKey, Alligator-Clip Invention Kit, Requires No Programming (VIDEO)

By The Huffington Post News Editors May 18th 2012 - 11:00AM

A pair of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have launched MaKey MaKey, a Kickstarter project with a noble goal -- to make everyone an inventor.

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Susan Kaiser Greenland: Stuck on something? Use your inner-reset button to get free.

By Susan Kaiser Greenland Mar 14th 2012 - 07:59PM

Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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Balanced Life -- Why Is Computer Programming Fun? (For Some People.)

By Gretchen Rubin Jul 20th 2011 - 10:27AM

Five reasons for the joys of craft, or, Why is programming fun?

Background on computer program

A computer program (also software, or just a program) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer.

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