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...answers to these questions are still forthcoming. Our focus should be first and foremost on ensuring that Internet voting can be a process that is as secure as the current polling-booth method. That done, we can turn to the more philosophical questions of how we vote and what our vote means. In my mind, however, the universality of Internet technology available today has pushed the country through a door that has all but shut behind us; no longer can we afford to disregard the web as a valid social and political arena. Voting in cyberspace is a logical next...
...Before I really got involved in this, the process of starting up a company seemed rather mysterious," says Kevin M. Gee, president of ETV and a second year engineering graduate student at UCSB...
Winning would have been trick enough, but the team also looked like an entirely different squad in the process. Suddenly, everything that Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni has preached all year manifested itself...
...connections between neurons--the synapses--are formed on branchlike structures called dendrites. In a normal, healthy person, these can gradually shrink over time, slowing the process of recalling information and leading to those familiar lapses called "senior moments." Memory gridlock is bothersome, but, says Johns Hopkins neurologist Barry Gordon, "what most people complain about is not that serious at all. They're probably not going to get Alzheimer's; they just care more about forgetfulness as they get older...
...memorizing the country code, city code and phone number for someone outside the U.S. as one string of digits and see how difficult it is. Breaking unwieldy pieces of information into smaller pieces makes them easier to remember. The process is called "chunking," and that's why we can remember Social Security and telephone numbers. Large unbroken sets of numbers, such as driver's licenses, can be artificially divided into chunks for easier recall. "Clustering" is another effective technique. Seven, according to experts, is the magic number for short-term, or working, memory. That's roughly how many things...