James C. Emery
ABSTRACT
By any reasonable yardstick the computer has been a fantastic success. It has grown in one generation from a laboratory curiosity to one of our major industries---perhaps the most vital one in our information-oriented post-industrial society. Raw computational speed has increased during this period by an order of magnitude every four or five years. The cost of computation has dropped to the point that we can employ it lavishly on everyday tasks.
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