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Algebra, Boole, Computers, Display

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There’s a small book display on the ground floor of the GCW University Library to mark the end of Boolefest (“a celebration of the life of George Boole“), a week-long arts and sciences festival which has been organised by Dave Kenyon in the Faculty of Media, Humanities & Technology. It consists of: A short ‘Boolean [...]

A-to-Z tweak: magazines from Google books

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Yesterday, I spotted (thanks @calire) that Google books have created a page that lets you browse their available magazine titles. I can’t resist a free journal. So I copied-&-pasted the entire page into MS Excel, used a handy function to extract the underlying URLs from the hyperlinked titles, did a bit of search-&-replace to make [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

November 11th, 2009 at 11:49 am