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ients. polarisability gradients and field-induced shifts in bond lengths. vibrational levels. Chem ical Physics 24.333-341 (1977). 88. Kunz• H. A.. Stewart ). P.& Dieter, K, M. Calculation of the nonlinear optical properties of molecules. Journal of Computational Cheinistiy 11. 82-87 (1990). 89. Fleish

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pparent that the ideas in cybernetic theory were far more important than the applications for which the mathematical descriptions were designed. Stewart and I have been in touch regularly since then - a 45-year connection. .IN Was it difficult to come up with Edge's 2010 quorion, about the interne

ed and debated. More fundamentally. it changes how research is done, what might be discovered and how students learn. JON KLEINBERG Professor of Computer Science. Comel University When I first used an Internet seach engine n the early 1990s. I imagined myself dipping into a vast. universal library. a muse

terror or joy or faith, it was meant to be awe. Stewart Brand, one of the supporters of the clock and an

ical Mediation — Philosophy, Sociology, Geneaology” in Common Knowledge, Fall 1994 Vol 3 No 2. p. 23 167 It suggests other dangers: Leslie Lamport, “Computer Science and State Machines”, Contribution to a Festschrift honoring Willem-Paul de Roever on his retirement” (Redmond: Microsoft Research, 2008). In its enti