Songs of Comfort and Joy.
The article recounts the story of Univac company at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The Univac facility in Dallas was created to sell scientific computing services to the oil industry with the refinery management service based on a technology called linear programming as its primary...
| Publicado en: | Computer (00189162) Vol. 39; no. 12; pp. 11 - 14 |
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Dec2006
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