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On the nature of computing

Published: 01 February 2005 Publication History

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Computing is its own virtual world, bound only by its practitioners' imaginations and creativity.

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Penrose, R. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. Jonathan Cape, London, U.K., 2004.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 48, Issue 2
Medical image modeling
February 2005
93 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1042091
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Published: 01 February 2005
Published in CACM Volume 48, Issue 2

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