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Discuss “Three Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. candidates devise way to track dollars”

It’s a common situation among roommates: Having just received a bill for this month’s utilities, everyone tries to figure out how much is owed and who owes what.

After seeing this same situation continually occur, three Ph.D. candidates in Carnegie Mellon’s computer science department decided to do something about it.

Traditionally, roommates have broken out trusty pen and paper to try to figure out the money situation, but by the time that happens the bill can already be past due. But Ashwin Bharambe, Amit Manjhi, and Shashank Pandit turned to technology instead. The three designed www.buxfer.com to keep track of expenses.

“It started as a personal thing, a set of scripts, then people started asking us for copies—friends, friends...

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