Drawings on Napkins, Video-Game Animation, and Other Ways to Program Computers

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 49-59

  Kahn, Ken ^a,b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 1542427540     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/232014.232028     Document Type: Article

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