Microelectronics and the Personal Computer

Computer Simulation of ElectroMigration in Microelectronics Interconnect

The Personal Computer and Entrepreneurship

In contrast to the large and rapidly growing literature on IT investments and firm productivity, we know very little about the role of personal computers in business creation. Using matched data from the 1997-2001 Computer and Internet Usage Supplements to subsequent Outgoing Rotation Group files from the Current Population Survey, I explore the relationship between computer ownership and entre...

From Personal Computer to Personal Assistant

Much of the confusion that surrounds electronic personal assistants arises from the open-ended complexity of their development. In this paper we categorise some of their more common uses before suggesting several thought-provoking extensions.

Personal computer PC

As the rst step in an automated text sum-marization algorithm, this work presents a new method for automatically identifying the central ideas in a text based on a knowledge-based concept counting paradigm. To represent and generalize concepts, we use the hierarchical concept taxonomy WordNet. By setting appropriate cutoo values for such parameters as concept generality and child-to-parent freq...

The Materiality of Microelectronics

This study advocates for ‘materials-centered’ accounts in the history of technology, and presents such an analysis for the early history of microelectronics. Innovations in semiconductor crystal production were central to the emergence of solid state electronics and the dynamics of the early semiconductor industry. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Bell Telephone Laboratories developed nov...