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Bill Gates unplugged

Posted by Mark Winegar on August 27, 2008




CSC475 Machine Organization teaches students how the machinery inside the black box works. Students learn how the system works. Focus is placed on the design trade-offs computer designers are confronted with and the challenges they face. It is also a first exposure to machine language.

I’m using a speech by Bill Gates on the advent of his retirement from the helm at Microsoft Corporation. The speech was given to the community of scholars at Carnegie Mellon University. It gives a vision of the future by someone viewing it from a unique perspective.

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