July 7, 2014
Make a cute, personalized 3D bracelet compliments of Google's Made With Code project. You code the bracelet by picking words and a color and it will be made on a 3D printer. It takes a few minutes to figure out how to do it, which is the whole point of the exercise. There also are other fun projects you can create using computer code, like an animated gift or style a selfie to share on social media. Your creation will arrive in about four weeks. Google and its sponsors (Girls Scouts, Mozilla and MIT Media Lab are a few)
August 16, 2005
Re the Aug. 9 commentary by David Gelernter, "Public cannot be trusted to draw ethical line": He is a professor of computer science at Yale. He makes the assumption that the public cannot be trusted not to take stem cell research further than is ethically correct. Why doesn't he use the same ethical reasons to discontinue using computers? Is it the fact that we have created an Internet full of pedophiles, pornography and instructions in bomb making, poisons and chaos? Is it more important than possibly curing diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes and AIDS and replacing defective body parts, etc.?
June 30, 1994
Bruce Barkley, a computer science engineering student, is suing Florida Atlantic University, claiming that an error-filled doctoral qualification exam has prevented him from earning his degree. Barkley, 38, of Boynton Beach, is seeking $150,000 in damages in the lawsuit he filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. "I've tried every way to solve this peacefully. I've petitioned every administrator for the past seven months," Barkley said on Wednesday. "I didn't want to file a lawsuit, but I feel like I have no other choice."
May 4, 1994
The Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Plantation is proud to announce that Jonathan Levinson, a senior in the computer science program, was one of 15 high school students in the nation to advance to the final round of the 1994 USA Computing Olympiad. Levinson, as a finalist from Florida, will participate in an expenses-paid, one-week training program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Parkside, Wis., in June. At the conclusion of the program, the 15 students will compete for four positions on the team that will represent the United States at a July 1994 International Olympiad to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Royal Insitute of Technology.
January 26, 1997
A former Yale computer-science student has pleaded guilty to defrauding America Online and faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution to AOL for using that company's services without paying for them. AOL estimates it lost between $40,000 and $70,000 in service charges because the ex-student distributed a computer program he called AOL4FREE to hundreds of other computer users. - UPI
February 19, 1997
Candidate for Oakland Park City Commission, Seat 5 * PERSONAL: Age 37. Single. Oakland Park resident since April 1992. * EDUCATION: Graduated in 1977 from Cedarburg High School in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin, bachelor's degree, computer science, 1982. * CIVIC: None. * POLITICAL: Elected to City Commission in 1993. * PROFESSIONAL: Systems administrator for CPS Communications in Boca Raton. Started Wilsoft Inc., a computer firm, but says the company is now more a hobby than a business enterprise.