MetaCricket: A designer's kit for making computational devices

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 795-815

  Martin, Fred ^a   Mikhak, Bakhtiar ^a   Silverman, Brian ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE METACRICKET;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 0034504137     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.393.0795     Document Type: Article

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