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Moving toward computing at the speed of thought

  • Written by Frances Van Scoy, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University
imageWhen will computers and humans interact fully?Illustration via shutterstock.com

The first computers cost millions of dollars and were locked inside rooms equipped with special electrical circuits and air conditioning. The only people who could use them had been trained to write programs in that specific computer’s language. Today, gesture-base...

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