Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a 2011 contest to create the program, where seven master's degree students started this winter in a computer science master's program.

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John obtained a master's degree in Computer science, with a minor in electronics engineering at the University of Wisconsin in 1980.

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It wasn't until he got hired by NASA, after completing his master's degree in computer science, that he realized the wall never existed.

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