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107 And now, of course: Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail Sellen Eds. Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020, (Redmond: Microsoft Research Publication 2008) 108 This how commonplace magic: Chris Mack, “The Multiple Lives of Moore’s Law: Why Gordon Moore’s grand predi

Nano things," Communications Magazine, IEEE , vol.53, no.3, pp.32-40, March 2015 73 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018305 drifting to cores in Silicon Valley and Redmond - a contest between Microsoft and Apple and Google. And the prized Korean manufacturing excellence was no match for cheap Chinese and then Vietnamese

lding - this is fine. Wonderful even. But it’s also not enough. “It happens that programming is a relatively easy craft to learn,” the MIT scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed in the 1970s, as computers emerged into academic life. “Almost anyone with a reasonably ordered mind can become a good programmer with just

w total up the benefit to the rest of us? The convenience, the efficiency, the benefits of Microsoft's billions of research spending might dwarf even Redmond’s massive profits. “Increasing returns,” Arthur wrote, “cause businesses to work differently and they stand many of our notions of how business opera

ther 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 entirety it runs: “Computer scientists collectively suffer from what I call the Whorfian syndrome—the confusion of

government (or our enemies) behave. We are, ina sense, being engineered by the damn opaque systems we are using. In 1965 the MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum found himself, somewhat unexpectedly, considering this same problem. 175 Weizenbaum had written a primitive computer program to perform what is now k

the future." "Well, for example, did you talk about information-highway software?" "it goes much deeper than that." At Microsoft's main office, in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle, I saw a demo of an early version of the company's operating software for the information-highway machine, in which the user p

i" " is a picture of Gates in the computer room with a stocking cap pulled over his head and lying on a table, over the caption "Who is this man?" Joseph Wcizenbaum, a computer scientist at M.I.T., perhaps overstating the case a little for effect, wrote, in "Computer Power and Human Reason," this early portrait

uture." "Well, for example, did you talk about information-highway software?" =/p> "It goes much deeper than that." At Microsoft's main office, in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle, I saw a demo of an early version of the company's operating software for the information-highway machine, in which the user po

ere is a picture =of Gates in the computer room with a stocking cap pulled over his head =and lying on a table, over the caption "Who is this man?" Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at M.I.T., perhaps overstating the case a little for effect, wrote, in "Computer Power and Human Reason," this early portrait

uture." "Well, for example, did you talk about information-highway software?" =/p> "It goes much deeper than that." At Microsoft's main office, in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle, I saw a demo of an early version of the company's operating software for the information-highway machine, in which the user po

ere is a picture =of Gates in the computer room with a stocking cap pulled over his head =and lying on a table, over the caption "Who is this man?" Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at M.I.T., perhaps overstating the case a little for effect, wrote, in "Computer Power and Human Reason," this early portrait