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It sort of a utopian nerd dream, using the internet to be educated by the best universities in the world. We have online universities now, but they ;ve become more targets of mean jokes than legitimate means to further education. But increasingly, that beginning to change. Georgia Tech announced the very first online master degree in computer science last month. It notable because it is a full deg
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