A Computer Science Reader

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Who Reads ABACUS?
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   Chapter 2 Star Wars: What Is the Professional Responsibility of Computer Scientists?
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   Chapter 3 Less than Meets the Eye
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   Chapter 4 Babel and Newspeak in 1984
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   Chapter 5 Don’t Shoot, They Are Your Children!
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   Chapter 6 Who Invented the First Electronic Digital Computer?
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   Chapter 7 Programmers: The Amateur vs. the Professional
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   Chapter 8 Japanese Word Processing: Interfacing with the Inscrutable
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    Chapter 9 Living with a New Mathematical Species
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    Chapter 10 Foretelling the Future by Adaptive Modeling
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    Chapter 11 Automating Reasoning
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    Chapter 12 The Composer and the Computer
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    Chapter 13 Mathematical Modeling with Spreadsheets
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    Chapter 14 U.S. Versus IBM : An Exercise in Futility?
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    Chapter 15 In Quest of a Pangram
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    Chapter 16 Microcomputing in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
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    Chapter 17 Chess Computers
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    Chapter 18 Books for Every Professional
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    Chapter 19 The Fifth Generation: Banzai or Pie-in-the-Sky?
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    Chapter 20 In the Art of Programming, Knuth Is First; There Is No Second
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    Chapter 21 The Permanent Software Crisis
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    Chapter 22 IBM and Its Way
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    Chapter 23 Computer-Assisted Problem Solving
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    Chapter 24 Who’s Liable When the Computer’s Wrong?
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    Chapter 25 Is There Such a Thing as a Personal Computer?
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    Chapter 26 Specialization in the Computer Press
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    Chapter 27 SDI: A Violation of Professional Responsibility
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    Chapter 28 Report from Europe: France’s Information Needs: Reality or Alibi?
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    Chapter 29 Report from the Pacific Tokyo: Fifth-Generation Reasoning
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    Chapter 30 Report from Europe Data Protection: Has the Tide Turned?
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    Chapter 31 Report from Anaheim Abacus Goes to the 1983 National Computer Conference
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    Chapter 32 Report from Washington MCC: One U.S. Answer to the Japanese
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    Chapter 33 Abacus Competition #1: Old and New Computing Aphorisms
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    Chapter 34 The Editors of Abacus Present Their Forecast
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    Chapter 35 Results of Abacus Competition #1: Old and New Computing Aphorisms