The day after I talked with Lanier at his home, we drove together to the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, a new virtual-reality lab on the Stanford campus.

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The first GIA scholarship application cycle for 2012 runs through Oct. 30 for on-campus, distance education and lab classes.

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Today, nearly 1, 500 students are educated in the school, which boasts an eight-building campus with 16 classrooms, a science lab and library.

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Or compelling Mark Zuckerberg to stay on campus and work in the computer lab the way some proposed modifications to the current one-and-done system might do for basketball players.

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So, each Wednesday in the just-concluded spring semester, Anderson and a dozen other Missouri students crunched numbers in a campus computer lab, the male students' agrarian roots betrayed only by baseball caps sporting farm equipment logos.

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