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4:00PM
OCT 23 2007
Computing in a parallel universe
From Rutherford Journal, William Aspray (Indiana): Den Fujita: From the Japanese Transistor Radio Export Business to Makudonaldo; Bob Doran (Auckland): The First Automatic Totalisator; and Charles Care (Warwick): A Chronology of Analogue Computing. From The Hindu, a review of Blind Men and The Elephant: Demystifying The Global IT Services Industry by Was Rahman and Priya Kurien. From Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, get a free book online, Philosophy of Technology: In Search of Discourse Synthesis by Paul Durbin; and a special issue of virtual reality. From American Scientist, computing in a parallel universe: Multicore chips could bring about the biggest change in computing since the microprocessor.
