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Prioritizing participation

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Many instructors who grade participation report students only superficially "participate" by giving the bare minimum needed to earn a grade, for example replying to a discussion by saying "I agree" (Research on motivation told us this would happen.) We hope to create an environment where active learning takes root organically.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

I started a journal and a research center, and collected my papers in a book entitled Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata (later reissued as Cellular Automata and Complexity ). The result was that in late 1986 I started the development of Mathematica (and what’s now the Wolfram Language) and founded Wolfram Research.

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