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ATLANTA — Ivanna Poliashenko was wired for a career in math. Her mother worked in computer science, her father got a PhD in applied mathematics, her grandmother was one of the first computer ...

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Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, before she channeled her talent for math into computer programming. While working at the RAND Corporation, she ...

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Cortical Labs out of Melbourne, Australia has created the CL1, the “world’s first code deployable biological computer” that runs on living, lab-grown human brain cells. Bonus: it is now available for ...