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Ian Clarke boots up a computer in a house he shares with two flatmates in a gritty London neighborhood, across the street from Brixton Prison. With a few quick keystrokes, he downloads a free copy of Britney Spears' new single, Oops!...I Did It Again. As Britney's sugary lament...
Clarke, a lanky, earnest 23-year-old, became fascinated with computers after seeing the 1983 hacker-fantasy flick War-Games as a child in Navan, Ireland. A computer-science major at the University of Edinburgh, Clarke developed Freenet as a student project over the summer of 1998. His key innovation...
There's more, like the female scientist who saw a flashing light in the smoke detector and heard "an unusual noise that sounded like an auto-focus camera lens as it adjusted" whenever she got undressed. Another scientist traveling in a foreign country checked his laptop - which had been padlocked...
The school will offer about 200 courses. The most popular offerings this year are in computer science, economics and chemistry.
Computer science courses have had the greatest growth in enrollment, with "Elements of Computer Science Using Java" leapfrogging past "Organic Chemistry" to become the most-demanded course, with 179 students signed up as of yesterday.