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Don’t even think of trying to redeem me. I regret NOTHING. No woman with any self-respect would have done less. The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. I’m not quarreling with your choice of issues, only with your intellectually diminished approach. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind’s destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three cheers for Eve.

Janet Fitch, from White Oleander (via provst)

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Don’t even think of trying to redeem me. I regret NOTHING. No woman with any self-respect would have done less. The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. I’m not quarreling with your choice of issues, only with your intellectually diminished approach. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind’s destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three cheers for Eve.

Janet Fitch, from White Oleander (via provst)

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Robotics

Robotics is the branch of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots,[1] as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.

These technologies deal with automated machines that can take the place of humans in dangerous environments or manufacturing processes, or resemble humans in appearance, behaviour, and or cognition. Many of today's robots are inspired by nature contributing to the field of bio-inspired robotics.

The concept of creating machines that can operate autonomously dates back to classical times, but research into the functionality and potential uses of robots did not grow substantially until the 20th century.[2] Throughout history, it has been frequently assumed that robots will one day be able to mimic human behavior and manage tasks in a human-like fashion. Today, robotics is a rapidly growing field, as technological advances continue; researching, designing, and building new robots serve various practical purposes, whether domestically, commercially, or militarily.[3] Many robots are built to do jobs that are hazardous to people such as defusing bombs, finding survivors in unstable ruins, and exploring mines and shipwrecks.

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British signals-intelligence agency GCHQ

Shortly after Robert Hannigan took over theShortly after Robert Hannigan took over the British signals-intelligence agency GCHQ in 2014, he implored technology companies to do more to facilitate investigations of criminals and terrorists. “To those of us who have to tackle the depressing end of human behavior on the Internet, it can seem that some technology companies are in denial about its misuse,” Hannigan wrote in an op-ed in the Financial Times.Today Hannigan appears to regret how he said it—he acknowledges that the comments “were widely seen as an attack on the tech industry” when in fact “companies are routinely providing help within the law.” But while his tone has softened, his argument remains. Echoing the FBI’s position in its standoff with Apple, Hannigan insists that intelligence and law enforcement agencies are often stymied without technical assistance from Silicon Valley (see “British Spy Agency Chief Says Tech Companies Should Provide a Way Around Encryption”). Here are highlights from an interview he gave to MIT Technology Review after a speech at MIT this week.y GCHQ in 2014, he implored technology companies to do more to facilitate investigations of criminals and terrorists. “To those of us who have to tackle the depressing end of human behavior on the Internet, it can seem that some technology companies are in denial about its misuse,” Hannigan wrote in an op-ed in the Financial Times.

Today Hannigan appears to regret how he said it—he acknowledges that the comments “were widely seen as an attack on the tech industry” when in fact “companies are routinely providing help within the law.” But while his tone has softened, his argument remains. Echoing the FBI’s position in its standoff with Apple, Hannigan insists that intelligence and law enforcement agencies are often stymied without technical assistance from Silicon Valley (see “British Spy Agency Chief Says Tech Companies Should Provide a Way Around Encryption”). Here are highlights from an interview he gave to MIT Technology Review after a speech at MIT this week.

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England Journal of Medicine

In corrections attached to three high-profile publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania’s star cancer scientist, Carl June, and his coauthors acknowledged they didn’t invent a key aspect of a breakthrough type of cancer therapy.

June has been hailed for his role in developing a new type of leukemia cure that uses engineered immune cells. The cells have added DNA instructions that direct them to attack a person’s cancer.

But now his papers, cited more than 2,300 times, according to Google Scholar, and which drew attention to revolutionary developments in cancer labs, have been amended to say they “omitted” an acknowledgment that the actual DNA was “designed, developed, and provided” by Dario Campana and Chihaya Imai, who worked at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Intentional or not, June’s oversight was a doozy. Since his papers came out, the field of immune engineering has exploded. There are dozens of trials underway, a flood of federal grants, and billions of dollars in private investment at stake (see “10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: Immune Engineering”).

St. Jude previously sued Penn when it learned the school was entering a commercial collaboration with the drug giant Novartis. That legal case was settled last year, with Novartis paying $12.5 million and shifting some future payments from Penn to St. Jude as well as to a startup named Juno Therapeutics.

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Top 10 Reasons to Major in Computing

Registering is a piece of all that we do!

Processing and PC innovation are a piece of pretty much everything that touches our lives from the autos we drive, to the motion pictures we watch, to the ways organizations and governments manage us. Understanding diverse measurements of registering is a piece of the vital expertise set for an informed individual in the 21st century. Whether you need to be a researcher, add to the most recent executioner application, or simply recognize what it truly implies when somebody says "the PC committed an error", concentrating on processing will give you significant learning.

2. Skill in figuring empowers you to illuminate mind boggling, testing issues.

Figuring is a control that offers compensating and testing conceivable outcomes for an extensive variety of individuals paying little mind to their scope of hobbies. Figuring requires and creates capacities in settling profound, multidimensional issues requiring creative ability and affectability to an assortment of concerns.

3. Figuring empowers you to have a beneficial outcome on the planet.

Figuring drives advancement in the sciences (human genome venture, AIDS immunization research, natural observing and security just to specify a couple), furthermore in building, business, excitement and instruction. On the off chance that you need to have a constructive outcome on the planet, study registering.

4. Registering offers numerous sorts of lucrative professions.

Registering occupations are among the most generously compensated and have the most elevated employment fulfillment. Registering is all the time connected with advancement, and improvements in figuring tend to drive it. This, thus, is the way to national aggressiveness. The conceivable outcomes for future advancements are relied upon to be significantly more noteworthy than they have been before.

5. Processing occupations arrive to stay, paying little heed to where you are found.

There really are more processing occupations than qualified individuals to fill them in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ventures development rates somewhere around 12% and 37% in processing and data innovation occupations from 2012 through 2022. On the off chance that you consider the normal development in registering, it's anything but difficult to see that organizations basically require more ability. Try not to pass up a great opportunity for seeking after the substantial number of open positions accessible at this moment.

6. Aptitude in processing offers you some assistance with evening if your essential vocation decision is something else.

Having a figuring real will give you an establishment of learning, critical thinking and consistent suspecting that will serve as an upper hand to you in your vocation, in whatever field you pick.

7. Registering offers extraordinary open doors for genuine inventiveness and creativity.

Making top notch processing arrangements is a very innovative action, and registering bolsters imaginative work in numerous different fields. The best arrangements in registering show large amounts of class and excellence.

8. Figuring has space for both communitarian work and individual exertion.

Figuring is regularly about being a piece of a group that requires individuals with a wide range of sorts of abilities. Yet there is additionally a lot of space for individual style and creative energy.

9. Registering is a key a portion of balanced scholastic readiness.

An expanding number of colleges and businesses see effective finish of a software engineering course as an indication of scholastic well-roundedness.

10. Future open doors in registering are without limits.

Processing is one of those fields where it is verging on difficult to foresee what will happen next. This is the reason we can't start to envision every one of the ways that you can make a commitment to it and it can make your labor of love energizing and genuine.

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Mixed Disciplinary Majors

Since registering is such a critical and element field, numerous interdisciplinary majors, some exceptionally late improvements, exist at a few schools. Here are only a couple of cases of these open doors. Some of these projects are offered at various U.S. schools as of Spring 2006; some just at a modest bunch of U.S. schools.

Bioinformatics consolidates components from at any rate science, natural chemistry, and software engineering, and plans understudies for professions in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical commercial ventures, or for master's level college in informatics. A few projects might likewise incorporate components from data frameworks, science, arithmetic, and measurements.

Computational science implies science done computationally, and serves as a scaffold between figuring innovation and essential sciences. It mixes a few fields including software engineering, connected arithmetic, and one or more application sciences, (for example, material science, science, science, building, earth sciences, business and others). A few projects likewise incorporate data frameworks.

Software engineering and Mathematics joins software engineering with arithmetic obviously. Some of these projects are found at schools that don't have a full major in software engineering; some are found at colleges with extensive software engineering offices.

Gaming and Animation. Majors for understudies keen on making PC recreations and PC activitys are being created at various schools. These majors have different flavors and might consolidate either or both of software engineering and data innovation work with either or both of workmanship and (advanced) media thinks about.

Restorative (or wellbeing) informatics projects are for understudies inspired by understudies who need to work in a medicinal domain. A few understudies will fill in as innovation specialists for clinics; some in general wellbeing; a few understudies might be premed or pre-dental. Coursework might be drawn from any or all of software engineering, data frameworks, or data innovation in blend with science, science, and courses one of a kind to this interdisciplinary field.

Know that particularly in the fresher interdisciplinary ranges, distinctive schools use diverse names for the same subject. For instance, one school's "bioinformatics" might be another school's "computational science."

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Information Technology

Data innovation (IT) is a name that has two implications. In like manner utilization, the expression "data innovation" is regularly used to allude to all of registering. As a name of a college degree program, it alludes to the planning of understudies to meet the PC innovation needs of business, government, human services, schools, and different sorts of associations.

IT experts have the right mix of learning and down to earth, hands-on mastery to deal with both an association's data innovation base and the general population who use it. They accept obligation regarding selecting equipment and programming items fitting for an association. They incorporate those items with authoritative needs and foundation, and introduce, redo and keep up those applications, in this way giving a protected and compelling environment that backings the exercises of the association's PC clients. In IT, programming frequently includes composing short projects that normally associate existing segments (scripting).

Arranging and dealing with an association's IT base is a troublesome and complex occupation that requires a strong establishment in connected registering and in addition administration and relationship building abilities. Those in the IT discipline require unique aptitudes – in comprehension, for instance, how organized frameworks are formed and organized, and what their qualities and shortcomings are. There are vital programming frameworks concerns, for example, dependability, security, ease of use, and adequacy and productivity for their proposed reason; these worries are key. These themes are troublesome and mentally requesting.

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Software Engineering

Programming building (SE) is worried with creating and keeping up programming frameworks that carry on dependably and effectively, are reasonable to create and keep up, and fulfill every one of the prerequisites that clients have characterized for them. It is vital on account of the effect of huge, costly programming frameworks and the part of programming in wellbeing basic applications. It incorporates huge arithmetic, software engineering and practices whose sources are in building.

Understudies can discover programming designing in two connections: software engineering programs offering one or more programming building courses as components of the CS educational programs, and in independent programming building programs. Degree programs in software engineering and in programming designing have a tendency to have numerous courses in like manner; be that as it may, as of Spring 2006 there are few SE programs at the lone wolf's level. Programming building concentrates on programming advancement and goes past programming to incorporate such things as inspiring clients' prerequisites, and planning and testing programming. SE understudies figure out how to survey client needs and create usable programming that addresses those issues.

Both software engineering and programming designing educational module regularly require an establishment in programming essentials and fundamental software engineering hypothesis. They separate in their concentrate past these center components. Software engineering programs tend to keep the center little and after that anticipate that understudies will pick among more progressed courses, (for example, frameworks, organizing, database, counterfeit consciousness, hypothesis, and so on.). Conversely, SE programs for the most part anticipate that understudies will concentrate on a scope of themes that are vital to the SE plan (issue demonstrating and investigation, programming outline, programming confirmation and approval, programming quality, programming process, programming administration, and so forth.). While both CS and SE programs regularly require understudies to experience group venture movement, SE programs have a tendency to include the understudies in altogether a greater amount of it, as successful group procedures are crucial to viable SE hones. Also, a key prerequisite determined by the SE educational programs rules is that SE understudies ought to figure out how to fabricate programming that is really valuable and usable by the client and fulfills every one of the necessities characterized for it.

A great many people who now work in the U.S. as genuine programming engineers have degrees in software engineering, not in programming designing. In expansive part this is on account of PC degrees have been broadly accessible for over 30 years and programming designing degrees have not. Positions that require improvement of vast programming frameworks frequently list "Programming Engineer" as the position title. Alumni of software engineering, PC building, and programming designing projects are great possibility for those positions, with the measure of programming building study in the projects deciding the suitability of that graduate for such a position.

Most IT experts who have figuring degrees originated from CS or IS projects. It is excessively soon for somebody who needs to function as a product engineer or as a data innovation professional to be anxious about the possibility that that they won't have a chance in the event that they don't move on from a degree program in one of the new trains. By and large, a CS degree from a regarded system is the most adaptable of degrees and can open entryways into the expert universes of CS, SE, IT, and in some cases CE. A degree from a regarded IS project permits section to both IS and IT vocations.

Media regard for outsourcing, offshoring, and work movement has made numerous be worried about the fate of processing related professions. It is past the extent of this site to address these issues. The report of the British Computer Society addresses these issues as they effect the U.K. The Globalization Report of the ACM Job Migration Task Force mirrors a universal viewpoint, not only a U.S-driven one.

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Computer Science

Computer science (CS) spans the range from theory through programming to cutting-edge development of computing solutions. Computer science offers a foundation that permits graduates to adapt to new technologies and new ideas. The work of computer scientists falls into three categories: a) designing and building software; b) developing effective ways to solve computing problems, such as storing information in databases, sending data over networks or providing new approaches to security problems; and c) devising new and better ways of using computers and addressing particular challenges in areas such as robotics, computer vision, or digital forensics (although these specializations are not available in all computer science programs). Most computer science programs require some mathematical background.

Let us consider what is involved in a career path in each area.

Career Path 1: Designing and implementing software. This refers to the work of software development which has grown to include aspects of web development, interface design, security issues, mobile computing, and so on. This is the career path that the majority of computer science graduates follow. While a bachelor’s degree is generally sufficient for entry into this kind of career, many software professionals return to school to obtain a terminal master’s degree. (Rarely is a doctorate involved.) Career opportunities occur in a wide variety of settings including large or small software companies, large or small computer services companies, and large organizations of all kinds (industry, government, banking, healthcare, etc.). Degree programs in software engineering also educate students for this career path.

Career Path 2: Devising new ways to use computers. This refers to innovation in the application of computer technology. A career path in this area can involve advanced graduate work, followed by a position in a research university or industrial research and development laboratory; it can involve entrepreneurial activity such as was evident during the dot-com boom of the 1990s; or it can involve a combination of the two.

Career Path 3: Developing effective ways to solve computing problems. This refers to the application or development of computer science theory and knowledge of algorithms to ensure the best possible solutions for computationally intensive problems. As a practical matter, a career path in the development of new computer science theory typically requires graduate work to the Ph.D. level, followed by a position in a research university or an industrial research and development laboratory.

Career Path 4: Planning and managing organizational technology infrastructure. This is the type of work for which the new information technology (IT) programs explicitly aim to educate students.

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