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 11: **Wisdom is not the product of schooling**
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 14: **but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.**
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 17: **- Albert Einstein**
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 21: (% style="font-size:1.6em;" %)**Human-Centered Computing
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 23: What is it all About?**
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 28: (% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)**Gerhard Fischer, Hal Eden, and Holger Dick**
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 31: (% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)**Fall Semester 2010**
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 34: (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)__[[(% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 1.2em" %)**gerhard@colorado.edu**>>mailto:Gerhard@colorado.edu||class="western"]](%%)__(% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)**; **(% style="color:#0000ff;" %)__[[(% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 1.2em" %)**haleden@colorado.edu**>>mailto:haleden@colorado.edu||class="western"]](%%)__(% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)**; **(% style="color:#0000ff;" %)__[[(% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 1em" %)**holger.dick@gmail.com**>>mailto:holger.dick@gmail.com||class="western"]](%%)__(% style="font-size:1.0em;" %)**; **(% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)** **
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 37: (% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)**August 30, 2010**
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 40: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 22pt" %)**Is Google Making Us Stupid?**
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 43: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 22pt" %)**or**
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 46: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 22pt" %)**Is Google actually making us smarter?**
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 49: **sources:**
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 51: * Carr, N. (2008) Is Google Making Us Stupid?, available at [[(% style="color:#0000ff;" %)__http:~~/~~/www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google__>>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google||class="western"]]
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 53: * Cascio, J: Get Smarter at
 54: (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)__[[http:~~/~~/www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/get-smarter/7548/>>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/get-smarter/7548/||class="western"]]__
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 57: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Ideas / Claims from “**(% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 22pt" %)**Is Google Making Us Stupid?”**
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 59: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The **advantages of having immediate access** to such an incredibly rich store of information are many,
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 61: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)The more people use the Web, the more they have **to fight to stay focused** on long pieces of writing ? (% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)continuous partial attention
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 63: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that **new forms of “reading”** are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins.
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 65: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)The Net’s influence doesn’t end at the edges of a computer screen, either. As people’s minds become attuned to the crazy quilt of Internet media, **traditional media have to adapt to the audience’s new expectations**.
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 67: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
 68: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Ideas / Claims **(% style="font-size:1.4em;font-size: 20pt" %)**from “Is Google actually making us smarter?**
 69: 
 70: * the story of the human race is one of ever-increasing intellectual capability. Since our early cave-dwelling ancestors, **our brains have gotten no bigger**, but there has been a steady (% style="color:#800080;" %)**accretion of new tools for intellectual work**
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 72: * **examples:**
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 75: ** (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)intelligence augmentation or You+
 76: ** (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)the hive mind of the Internet
 77: ** (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)the powerful tools for simulation and visualization
 78: ** (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)cognitive enhancement drugs
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 80: 
 81: * **a classic article:**
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 84: ** (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)Bush, V. (1945) "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), pp. 101-108.
 85: ** [[(% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)__http:~~/~~/www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/as-we-may-think/3881/__>>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/as-we-may-think/3881/||class="western"]]
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 88: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**The Fundamental Transformation:**
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 91: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 28pt" %)**Old Computing ? New Computing**
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 94: * **Old Computing = What (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)Computers(%%) Could Do**
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 96: * **New Computing = What (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)Humans (%%)Can Do**
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 98: * **source: **(% style="color:#008000;" %)Shneiderman, B. (2002) Leonardo's Laptop — Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass
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100: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
101: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Who Should Serve whom?**
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104: * **1933 Chicago World’s Fair**
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107: Science Finds,
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110: Industry Applies,
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113: Man Conforms
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117: * **person-centered motto for the 21st century**
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120: People Propose,
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123: Science Studies,
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126: Technology Conforms
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130: * **source: **(% style="color:#008000;" %)Norman, D. A. (1993) //Things That Make Us Smart,// Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA.
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132: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
133: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Hardware for Computing In “Ancient” Times**
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139: (% style="font-size:1.4em;font-size: 20pt" %)**Hardware for Computing — In the “Very Old” Days**
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141: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; font-weight: normal" %)
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145: (% style="font-size:1.4em;font-size: 20pt" %)**Hardware for Computing — In the “Old” Days**
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156: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
157: (% style="font-size:1.4em;font-size: 20pt" %)**Hardware for Computing — Yesterday**
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162: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
163: (% style="font-size:1.4em;font-size: 20pt" %)**Hardware for Computing — Today**
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168: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
169: (% style="font-size:1.4em;font-size: 20pt" %)**Hardware for Computing — Tommorow**
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174: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
175: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Infrastructure for Computing**
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178: * **1950-1960: Large Computers — **used with punched cards
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180: * **1970: Timesharing —** many users use the same computer from a terminal
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182: * **1980: personal computer — **each computer has its own CPU
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184: * **1990: Graphical User Interfaces — **WIMP interfaces: [[window>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_(computing)||class="western"]], [[icon>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(computing)||class="western"]], [[menu>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_(computing)||class="western"]], [[pointing device>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_device||class="western"]]
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186: * **2000: Networks: Internet and World-Wide Web — **communication and collaboration
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188: * **2010: Cloud Computing — **IT-related capabilities are provided “[[as a service>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_as_a_service||class="western"]]”, allowing users to access technology-enabled services "in the cloud” (Internet) without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them
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190: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
191: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**The ‘Old’ Days —**(% style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;" %)** **(%%)**The Human-Computer Dyad**
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199: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 22pt" %)**Knowledge-Based HCC: 
200: Broader Explicit and Implicit Communication Channel**
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205: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
206: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**An Early Vision**
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208: (% class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %)
209: (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)source: Grudin, J. (1990) "The Computer Reaches Out: The Historical Continuity of Interface Design." //Proceedings of CHI'90 Conference//, pp. 261-268
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215: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Beyond HCI: A Layered Architecture Supporting 
216: **(% style="color:#0000ff;" %)**Human Problem Domain Interaction**
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222: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 26pt" %)**Time Frames in HCI**
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224: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in" %)
225: (% style="font-size:1.2em;" %)**source: Newell, A. & Card, S. K. (1985) "The Prospects for Psychological Science in Human-Computer Interaction," Human-Computer Interaction, 1(3), pp. 209-242**
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258: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
259: (% style="font-size:1.4em;font-size: 20pt" %)**HCC: Automate ? Informate**
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261: * **Artificial Intelligence (AI) (% style="font-family:Wingdings;" %)?(%%)  (% style="color:#800080;" %)Intelligence Augmentation (IA)(%%)**
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263: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)replacement (expert systems) ? empowerment (socio-technical environments)
264: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)emulate (natural language) ? complement (exploit unique properties of new media)
265: 
266: * **human-based computation**
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268: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)a computer science technique in which a computational process performs its function by **outsourcing certain steps to humans**
269: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)leverages differences in abilities and alternative costs between humans and computer agents to achieve **symbiotic human-computer interaction**
270: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)**in traditional computation**: a human employs a computer to solve a problem by providing a formalized problem description to a computer, and receives a solution to interpret
271: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)human-based computation frequently reverses the roles; the **computer asks a person or a large group of people to solve a problem**, then collects, interprets, and integrates their solutions
272: 
273: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
274: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Human-based Computation**
275: 
276: * reverses the common interaction between computers and humans (% style="font-family:Wingdings;" %)?(%%) the computer is no longer an agent of its user, but instead, **a coordinator aggregating efforts of many human evaluators**
277: 
278: * Internet impact: research on human-based computation has shifted towards **asking large crowds of humans**, instead of a single one or a small number of them, to perform the computational steps
279: 
280: * example: **CAPTCHA** (based upon the word capture) = a contrived acronym for //"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"//
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282: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; font-weight: normal" %)
283: [[image:output_html_m1bd63aa2.png||border="0" height="67" name="graphics13" width="354"]]
284: 
285: * question: **incentives to participation**?
286: 
287: * more info: Luis von Ahn, Google TechTalks (2006)
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289: (% align="LEFT" style="margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in" %)
290: (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)**__[[(% style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 1.4em" %)http:~~/~~/video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143#>>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143#||class="western"]](%%)__**
291: 
292: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
293: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Informate versus Automate
294: **(% style="font-size:1.4em;" %)** (example: flying an airplane)**
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296: (% align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %)
297: [[image:output_html_me55edf8.png||border="0" height="473" name="graphics14" width="719"]]
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299: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
300: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Some Characteristics of Human-Centered Computing**
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302: * computers will disappear in the background (they will become **invisible)**
303: 
304: * movement from independent work to **collaboration** with **distant** colleagues will be seamless — distant in: space, time, and conceptual world
305: 
306: * will develop more **powerful tools** to enable all humans to be more creative
307: 
308: * (% style="font-size:1.2em;font-size: 16pt" %)**more information:** Shneiderman, B., Fischer, G., Czerwinski, M., Resnick, M., & Myers, B. (2006) "Creativity Support Tools: Report From a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop," International Journal Of Human–Computer Interaction, 20(2), pp. 61–77.
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310: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
311: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**HCC: A Unifying Framework for Many Disciplines
312: —
313: **(% style="font-size:1.4em;" %)**Related Research Disciplines (with Journals, Conferences)**
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315: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; font-weight: normal" %)
316: (% style="color:#008000;" %)[[image:output_html_41e49191.gif||border="0" height="412" name="graphics15" width="691"]]
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318: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
319: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**HCC Themes for this Course**
320: 
321: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in" %)
322: [[image:output_html_7ff4f101.gif||border="0" height="445" name="graphics16" width="758"]]
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324: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
325: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**Human-Centered Computing — Is it all Good?**
326: 
327: 
328: * (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)**Faustian Bargain:**(%%) advanced technologies have the potential to promote positive contributions, but they also can support the dark side of human nature
329: 
330: * technology (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)**flaws**(%%) have caused deadly errors (% style="font-family:Wingdings;" %)?(%%) (% style="color:#008000;" %)Lee, L. (1992) The Day The Phones Stopped, Donald I. Fine, Inc., New York.
331: 
332: 
333: * (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)**barriers**(%%) between disciplines and cultures (% style="font-family:Wingdings;" %)?(%%) (% style="color:#008000;" %)Snow, C. P. (1993) The Two Cultures, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
334: 
335: * (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)**digital divide**(%%) (% style="font-family:Wingdings;" %)?(%%) (% style="color:#008000;" %)Schön, D. A., Sanyal, B., & Mitchell, W. J. (Eds.) (1999) High Technology and Low-Incoming Communities, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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337: (% align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0.17in; page-break-before: always" %)
338: (% style="font-size:1.6em;font-size: 23pt" %)**The Skeptic’s Corner**
339: 
340: 
341: * skeptics do not believe that the course of technology can be changed
342: 
343: * \\
344: ** **Machiavelli: **//“People who want to change institutions, have all those as their enemies who have done well under the old conditions”//
345: 
346: * **Gerhard’s challenge to all students in the course:**
347: 
348: (% align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %)
349: (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)the future is not out there to be discovered
350: 
351: (% align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %)
352: (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)—
353: 
354: (% align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %)
355: (% style="color:#0000ff;" %)it has to be **invented and designed**
356: 
357: 
358: (% class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in" %)
359: ? and **all of you** should contribute to creating a **desirable future**!
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362: (((
363: (% style="margin-top: 0.46in; margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 0; orphans: 0" %)
364: (% style="font-size:0.8em;" %)Fischer & Eden & Dick 26 HCC Course, Fall 2010
365: )))
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