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Bewitched by a computer

Nature volume 298, page 590 (1982)Cite this article

The Soul of a New Machine.

By Tracy Kidder. Pp.254. US ISBN 0-316-49170-5; UK ISBN 0-7139-1482-3. (Little, Brown/Allen Lane: 1982.) $12.95, £7.50.

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  1. Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Manchester, and author of Early British Computers (Manchester University Press, 1980).

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