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The Future of Computing ( Preview )

M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science is developing a new infrastructure for information technologies--the Oxygen system--that promises to realize a vision long held by the lab's director: helping people do more by doing less

By Michael L. Dertouzos    

 
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Last year a few of us from the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology were flying to Taiwan. I had been trying for about three hours to make my new laptop work with one of those cards you plug in to download

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