Scientific applications of computers in the '70s
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It is still fashionable to predict that what happens in the future of computing will be a glorified extension of what has happened in the past. Thus, the last decade has seen an explosion in all uses of computers and therefore, so the fashion would dictate, this explosion must necessarily continue if the faith is not to be shaken.
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May 1972
1234 pages
ISBN:9781450379090
DOI:10.1145/1478873
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Published: 16 November 1971
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