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Students Make Library a Game

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A Game In Progress

Brown students today transformed the University's Sciences Library into the world's largest tetris game. Using christmas lights, homemade circuit boards and a pc running linux, students of "tech house" (http://techhouse.brown.edu/) lit up the library's south face with a computer-controlled display of the venerable tetris computer game. Passers-by could play a game while listening to a recording of the game's original music. A website (http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/) describes the project, along with pictures and movies of the game in action.

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Brown CS News Goes Online

The Brown Computer Science Department today introduced department news to its website. Beginning today, web visitors will be able to catch up on the latest news of the computer science department by visiting the department's home page.

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