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Abstract | ||
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Surely, nobody could have foreseen the degree to which we have become reliant on computer systems in our daily lives. They wake us up in the morning, cook our food, get us to work, control the traffic in the streets, entertain us, give us cash from our bank accounts (under certain conditions!), help to treat our diseases, monitor our health, and even defend us from potential threats. The increases in produc-tivity and greater precision that they afford has meant great advances in scientific discovery. Yet, there has always been a naivety about how reliant we would be on computer systems. Back in the early 1950s, a survey by the British government estimated that two compu-ters of the power and capacity of EDSAC (the first electro-nic computer to execute a stored program; built at the University of Cambridge and first run on 7 May 1949) would be sufficient to support all the scientific computing in the country. That was clearly a great underestimate, as the machine this introduction is being typed on, is many thou-sands of times more powerful than EDSAC and yet frus-trates sometimes with long delays. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1997 | 10.1016/S0141-9331(99)00034-4 | Microprocessors and Microsystems |
DocType | Volume | Issue |
Conference | 23 | 3 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
0141-9331 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Broggi | 1 | 177 | 19.91 |
| M. Hinchey | 2 | 0 | 0.68 |
| A.D. Stoyen | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |