11.  One of the most popular classes is Lego Logo, in which students build motorized machines with Lego blocks and then program computers to operate them.

12.  Peter Harris started programming computers when Harry Truman was in the White House.

13.  Price alignments that Long-Term Capital uses to program its computers have everywhere fallen out of whack.

14.  Programming a computer to master literature, beauty and love.

15.  Stephen Pastan, an Emory nephrologist who started programming computers in high school, still worries about what gets lost when doctor and patient communicate without talking.

16.  Swanson and his group programmed the computer to identify certain vibration patterns from the coils that might signal human intruders, rather than, say, woodchucks or deer.

17.  The cocky, self-assured adolescent who collects National Geographic magazines and reads science textbooks for fun taught himself how to program computers and clean up viruses.

18.  The computer was also programmed with the basic laws of physics so that whatever the devices did on the screen would work the same way in the real world.

19.  Though Gary J. Frank programmed computers for a living, he was not the nerdy type.