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Toward the domestication of microelectronics
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Volume 28 ,  Issue 11  (November 1985) table of contents
Special issue: computing in the frontiers of science and engineering
Pages: 1225 - 1235  
Year of Publication: 1985
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Joel S. Birnbaum  1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

The great challenge for computer science in this decade is to make computers usable by everyone. Computers, long viewed as a dehumanizing force, will become the most powerful means of personal creative expression and communication ever known.


CITED BY  4
Douglas W. Jones, Concurrent simulation: an alternative to distributed simulation, Proceedings of the 18th conference on Winter simulation, p.417-423, December 08-10, 1986, Washington, D.C., United States
Marc Abrams, The object library for parallel simulation (OLPS), Proceedings of the 20th conference on Winter simulation, p.210-219, December 12-14, 1988, San Diego, California, United States
R. A. Duisberg, Animated graphical interfaces using temporal constraints, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, v.17 n.4, p.131-136, April 1986
Robert Adámy Duisberg, Animation using temporal constraints: an overview of the animus system, Human-Computer Interaction, v.3 n.3, p.275-307, September 1987

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
  B. Hardware
  B.7 INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
      B.7.2 Design Aids
          Subjects: Simulation

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY


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In this futuristic paper about the potential uses of computers, the author points to an inevitable shift from our preoccupation with price and performance to concerns about usability and usefulness of the technology. As with other pervasive tech  more...


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