Word: computerized
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The number of students concentrating in computer science (CS) and psychology has increased by more than 50 percent in the last several years.
For CS, the process has been eased by Maxwell-Dworkin, the campus' new $20 million computer-science building, and by $5 million in endowed professorships from Bill Gates, Class of '77. And as part of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (DEAS), CS has also benefited from Dean Venkatesh...
"It's going on all over the country, and it's pretty obvious that it's driven by the excitement of the computer world and the Internet," he says.
First-class universities, cultural institutions and rapidly expanding computer and biotechnology sectors are attracting swarms of people and resources to the metropolitan area, sparking a city-wide renaissance, impacting even the poorest sections of Boston.
Although the tech community may recoil at such a proposal--and at Bush's remarkable denial of personal volition--the plan makes political sense. It takes what most people see as a technological dragon and promises that it will be slain by a technological St. George, filter software that can...