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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2014

Tony Hey
Affiliation:
Microsoft Research, Washington
Gyuri Pápay
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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The Computing Universe
A Journey through a Revolution
, pp. 367 - 376
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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