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Sudoku: behind the scenes
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Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he knows his sudoku.
For those not familiar with the...
Browsing for web browsers
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Back when I was a kid, there were only two kinds of peanut butter on the shelf — chunky and smooth — a handful of ice cream flavors and fewer television channels than I...
Life after death
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Whoa, you just died. Nice one. Only a moment ago, there you were — alive, lying in bed, in a clean, white room. Your family was standing all around you, vaguely bored. It looked...
Multi-touch screen will soon be obsolete
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How often have you wished that your coffee table doubled as a musical instrument? If your answer was “all the time,” I have good news for you: computer science graduate students at the U...
Sudoku: Behind the scenes
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Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he knows his sudoku.
For those not familiar with the...
The age of things
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Two hundred kilometers north of Winnipeg is Nopiming Provincial Park, a place full of backwater camping and hiking trails, and, as it happens, precambrian rocks that are over two billion years old. The precambrian,...
University awaits results of predicted budget shortfall
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As the announcement of the provincial operating grant approaches, university administration, faculty members and staff wait to see if a predicted budget shortfall for 2010-11 will come true.
This predicted deficit has spawned two new...
