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Monday, October 15, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/technology/ebusiness/15NECO.html Using Humans as a Computer Model By STEVE LOHR THINK of it as computing's crisis of complexity, revisited. For more than three decades, the big advances in computing have soon brought new headaches. The initial steps ahead are typically in hardware — processors, storage and networks — and the headaches are manifested in software. It is software that is the medium for doing all the new things in computing that hardware makes possible — whether simple numeric calculations or increasingly sophisticated functions like symbolic processing, graphics, simulations, artificial intelligence and so on....
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