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The KWIC and the Dead - A Lesson in Computing History
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-16, 12:40 authored by Holmes, WNThe computing profession’s purpose is to promote, for the greater community’s benefit, the use of formal representations of facts or ideas and of machines and processes for the storage and transformation of such representations. Thus, our profession’s history originated in the culture of the printers and scribes who promoted the use of the written languages from which our present binary representations developed. The article argues that ideas published decades ago may suggest solutions to some of today’s most pressing technological and social challenges. It also suggests that the computing profession can develop faster and better through cumulative innovation, building on its past instead of ignoring it. © 2001, IEEE. All rights reserved.
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Publication title
ComputerVolume
34Pagination
142-144ISSN
0018-9162Department/School
School of Information and Communication TechnologyPublisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer SocPlace of publication
USARepository Status
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