Prime Minister Mori, in fact, said while visiting a computer lab at a junior high school last week, that had been his first computer lesson.

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With the benefit of a perfect memory of student's past responses, a computer lesson should also be able to identify some of these patterns and offer up novel challenges at the right time.

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"Schools need to get away from half-hour lesson blocks especially with computer science, " he said.

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The trio argues in a paper that will be published in Science and Technology Ethics that the people who design the algorithms for computer-automated trading should take a lesson from the engineers and technicians who keep our food, medicines and airlines safe.

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While president of international operations for Dell Computer in the early 1990s, Harris learned a different lesson.

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One afternoon, Lauren's class was building cardboard and construction-paper models of New York landmarks, a lesson that leads up to the challenge of building 3-D models in the computer.

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