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Sebastian Thrun, Stanford professor, introduces his brain child Udacity with Professor David Evans from University of Virginia. Udacity offers Computer Science classes for free through a web portal showcasing YouTube videos, interactive quizzes, and intimate instruction from two top professors.

A FREE conference in Boulder, CO showcasing startups, offering jobs to hackers, and even will provide free plane tickets and a couch to sleep on a few lucky attendees. May 16-20.

How civilians helped win the Libyan information war.

Orbiting spacecraft could be refueled with water taken from planetoids—but some experts doubt the economics.

Serve IT is a community information technology clinic housed in the IU School of Informatics and Computing. Serve IT provides students with so many opportunities that are implicitly stated such as beefing up the resume, improving a variety of soft and hard skills, and giving back to the community in a way that brings you a sense of pride.

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Yuichi Mori - Soil-free Agriculture

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Article by Wired discussing the potential for algorithms to replace reporters. Really enjoyed the comment that ESPN is ahead of the curve in this respect.

Pranav Mistry demoing SixthSense technology, a breakthrough in gestural computing.