Today Ashesi, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, offers degrees in business, information systems and computer science, with plans to offer engineering and economics majors in the near future.

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Back in 2010, 1500 Facebook users were polled in a University of Colorado study conducted through Twitter by PhD Computer Science and Information Systems student Christopher Sibona, where he focused on the repercussions of unfriending someone on Facebook.

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It took less than 24 hours for Matt Blaze, a computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who audited voting systems for California and Ohio in 2007, to start pointing out the problems with that workaround: Unencrypted emails can be spoofed or tampered with.

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The native of India earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and worked for various startups, including one acquired by Cisco Systems Inc.

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