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Splash Biography



RUTH BYERS, ESP Teacher




Major: Mathematics and Computer Science

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2013

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Past Classes

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M1015: Computer Guts in Splash! Fall 2012 (Oct. 06, 2012)
Ever wonder what actually happens when you install software on your computer? When you stick a flash drive in? How your pictures are actually stored. In this class, we'll take a knife to the computer and spill some digital guts all over the computer screen.


A1016: Was this land made for you and me? in Splash! Fall 2012 (Oct. 06, 2012)
Woody Guthrie is the person who wrote "This Land is Your Land," a silly little patriotic song you probably sang in grade school. You might be surprised to learn that song has some verses that your teachers didn't teach you, and in the original, Woody wasn't so sure by the last verse whether this land was made for you and me at all. Hear some of the music that Woody Guthrie and the hear some of the music he wrote that you probably didn't sing in grade school.