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  2. List of fictional computers - Wikipedia

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    Adaptations have included stage shows, a "trilogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996.

  3. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the ...

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    Broussard has published a wide range of books examining the intersection of technology and social practice. Her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, published in April 2018 by MIT Press, examines the limits of technology in solving social problems. A review in Times Higher Education states that [1]

  4. Children of Time (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel received positive reviews, [1] and won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel. [2] [3] [4] The director of the award program praised the novel as having "universal scale and sense of wonder reminiscent of Clarke himself." [5] The next in the series, Children of Ruin, was published in 2019.

  5. Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia

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    His books on space travel usually included chapters about other aspects of science and technology, such as computers and bioengineering. He predicted telecommunication satellites (albeit serviced by astronauts in space suits, who would replace the satellite's vacuum tubes as they burned out).

  6. Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia

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    The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck. [1] Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different (usually) inanimate objects, or pets such as a dog or a cat.

  7. The Last Question - Wikipedia

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    "The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete ...

  8. The Secret Guide to Computers - Wikipedia

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    The Secret Guide to Computers is a book on computer hardware and software techniques by Russ Walter. [1] The book was written to be useful in both teaching and professional environments. [2] Its goal is to describe everything necessary to become a "computer expert," covering philosophies, technicalities, hardware, software, theory, and practice ...

  9. Google - Wikipedia

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    Google Workspace (formerly G Suite until October 2020 [199]) is a monthly subscription offering for organizations and businesses to get access to a collection of Google's services, including Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides, with additional administrative tools, unique domain names, and 24/7 support.