According to a recent Reuters article, the worlds of personal finance and computer gaming are increasingly co-mingling.

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Earning degrees in finance and computer science from the University of Miami, 33-year-old CEO Joe Fernandez had the idea for Klout back in 2007 when he had to have surgery to correct his misaligned mandible.

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Even as the private world has eclipsed public markets, finance has been convulsed by a computer-enhanced frenzy of creativity.

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Each university will have an incentive to run an efficient and professional rating process, providing a real-world training lab for undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds (economics, computer engineering, political science, law, finance).

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Lockitron creators Cameron Robertson and Paul Gerhardt were both University of Colorado students -- studying history, economics and finance, and computer science respectively -- when they started playing with inventions.

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The topic of supercomputing in finance might get more attention now that Cray has come out with a commercial computer.

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