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Top 10 Hollywood Misconceptions

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Hollywood budgets may stretch to hundreds of millions of dollars but with actors’ wages getting ridiculously high they obviously don’t have too much cash to splash on new computers.

Read on as we expose to you Hollywood’s top mistakes surrounding computers and computer science!

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Social & Ethical Issues in Computing

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

As computers pervade ever more aspects of our lives, and possibly even our bodies, some serious questions are being raised concerning the ethical wellbeing of our future.

Read on as we cover everything from Big Brother to the world’s first bionacle man.

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Mythbuster

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Before you read this list, think about what a job in computing entails. I imagine you envision a geeky person hunched over their keyboard in a minute cubicle filled with empty pizza boxes. They’ve probably not seen natural light for days and smell vaguely of cheesy Wotsits. And they almost certainly wear glasses and braces. Their speech is punctuated with “lol”, “0wned” and “kthxbye” and they think soap is a film starring Samuel L. Jackson.

And they’d probably be clearing their desk as well since, obviously, their job just got outsourced to India and China – at the same time!

If any of that was even remotely close to your vision then read on.
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