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October 29, 2015 08:11 am PDT
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The word "software" sounded ridiculous when it was coined in '53
Computing pioneer Paul Niquette's memoir begins with the tale of how he came to coin the term "software" in 1953, to the ridicule of his colleague, and how the idea of a computer whose code was separate from its machinery took hold and changed the way we think about computation forever. (more…)
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