Some computer scientists are trying more creative approaches.

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Google used its annual meeting with analysts on Wednesday to shine the spotlight on some of its most precious assets--its workforce of 20-something engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians.

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Some 34 of the world's leading biologists, physicists, chemists, Earth scientists and computer scientists, led by Stephen Emmott, of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Britain, have spent the past eight months trying to understand how future developments in computing science might influence science as a whole.

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