May 3, 2012 | Medical

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Each summer at Stanford University, the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) invites a select group of undergraduates from across the country to gather for a two-month immersion into advanced computing. New Mexico State University student Adam Duran worked with mentors Adrian Lew, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Sohan Dharmaraja, a doctoral candidate at Stanford studying computational mathematics, on a touchscreen Braille writer that stands to revolutionize how the blind negotiate an unseen world by replacing devices costing up to ten times more.

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