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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume 31, Issue 1
Jan.-Mar. 2009
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Table of Contents
Editorial Board
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pp. 3
Jean Sammet: Programming Language Contributor and Historian, and ACM President
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pp. 76-85
by
Thomas J. Bergin
Features
From the Editor's Desk
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pp. 2
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Jeffrey R. Yost
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Asian Language Processing: History and Perspectives
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pp. 4-7
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S.T. Nandasara
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Yoshiki Mikami
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A Journey from Indian Scripts Processing to Indian Language Processing
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pp. 8-31
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R. Mahesh K. Sinha
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From the Past to the Present: Evolution of Computing in the Sinhala Language
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pp. 32-45
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S.T. Nandasara
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Computers and the Thai Language
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pp. 46-61
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Hugh Thaweesak Koanantakool
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Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
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Chai Wutiwiwatchai
Events and Sightings [includes an obituary for Oliver G. Selfridge]
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pp. 62-67
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Chigusa Kita
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The Birth of Link-State Routing
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pp. 68-71
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John M. McQuillan
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pp. 72-73
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Fuhgedaboudit—Technology in the Outer Boroughs of New York
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pp. 74-75
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Michael N. Geselowitz
Software as History Embodied
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pp. 88-91
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Nathan Ensmenger
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