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===The Finest Machine=== | ===The Finest Machine=== | ||
''The Finest Machine: The Science and the Joy of Computing''. Computing from the ground up, beginning with formal systems and moving up through information theory, VLSI, microprocessors and programming languages. | ''The Finest Machine: The Science and the Joy of Computing''. | ||
* [[ | * Computing from the ground up, beginning with formal systems and moving up through information theory, VLSI, microprocessors and programming languages. | ||
* [[media:Machines-ToC.pdf|Table of Contents]] | |||
==Fiction== | ==Fiction== | ||
* ''Maximum Scrunch'', a novel | * ''Maximum Scrunch'', a novel | ||
** the title comes from Hans Bethe's ''Road from Los Alamos'', referring to the conditions at which implosion turns to explosion in a supernova's core collapse | ** the title comes from Hans Bethe's ''Road from Los Alamos'', referring to the conditions at which implosion turns to explosion in a supernova's core collapse | ||
