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Author: Nicholas Metropolis
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: supercomputing, frontiers
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1986-02
ISBN-10: 0520051904
ISBN-13: 9780520051904
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Author: Karyn R. Ames
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: reassessment, national, supercomputing, frontiers
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 1994-02-10
ISBN-10: 0520084012
ISBN-13: 9780520084018
00 This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Supercomputing conference offer perceptive and often controversial views on the emerging computing environment in the United States. This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hither
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Author: Patricia Beezley Mrazek
Publisher: National Academies
Keywords: preventive, intervention, research, frontiers, disorders, risks, mental, reducing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1994
eBookDB-ID: NAP:13814
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Author: Gerald M. Meier
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: perspective, future, economics, development, frontiers
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2001-01-15
ISBN-10: 0195215923
ISBN-13: 9780195215922
With contributions from 35 leading economists, this forward-looking book explores the future of development economics against the background of the past half-century of development thought and practice. Outstanding representatives of the past two generations of development economists assess development thinking at the turn of the century and look to the unsettled questions confronting the next generation.The volume offers a thorough analysis of the broad range of issues involved in development economics, and it is especially timely in its critique of what is needed in development theory and po
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