He wanted to move on to college to study applied math and computer science.

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The computer model in the study builds on decades of research that shows that most species of fish, especially large ones, have maximum growth sizes based on the availability of oxygen in the water.

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But another study on trust, by Judith Olson, a cognitive psychologist and professor of information and computer sciences at University of California, Irvine, showed that people who met virtually could predict behavior and establish trust if they had enough time.

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He went to Princeton to study physics and ended up in computer science, which led to a brief, lucrative career on Wall Street.

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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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