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Little Camera, Big Idea

Shree Nayar has dedicated much of his computer science career to improving the way cameras take pictures. Four years ago, he decided to move in a new direction: to design a camera that could improve the way children learn about science and one another.

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A Touch of the Poet at 80

On Oct. 13, poetry professor Richard Howard (CC'51) celebrated his 80th birthday with current and former students under an intriguing premise: Howard read his poetry along with six former student poets who read their own.More
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Capturing a Smoke-Filled Era of Jazz

On Oct. 19, Herman Leonard, a photographer best known for the intimate, smoke-hued black-and-white portraits he took of jazz musicians in the 1940s and ’50s, spoke at a discussion, sponsored by Columbia's Center for Jazz Studies, that looked at his work as art and historical record.

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