Maurice V. Wilkes
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As everyone knows, the computer industry is passing through a period of great change. I was speaking recently to a senior executive in one of the large companies…
Revisiting computer security in the business world
In my first column (Communications, Apr. 1990) I discussed computer security in the business world. I remarked that whereas the military had always attached great…
Computing perspectives: software and the programmer
Engineering could not exist without mathematics and experimental science. Mathematics deals in pure thought and experimental science is concerned with the laws of nature.…
Computing perspectives: the rise of the VLSI processor
Around 1970 Intel discovered it could put 2,000 transistors—or perhaps a few more—on a single NMOS chip. In retrospect, this may be said to mark the beginning…
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