Information technology concern Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has flexed both fundamental and technical muscle over the past few months.

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The Initiative, a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers, is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the leading source of Federal grants for many fields that are crucial to US technology development and job creation, including computer science, mathematics, and the social sciences.

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Asher Edelman was one of the early 1980s corporate raiders, strong-arming companies like computer maker Management Assistance, real estate outfit Canal-Randolph and technology firm Mohawk Data Sciences.

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As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.

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