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Title: The Virtual Renaissance Man
Review: This book is an excellent resource for practitioners to remind of what is important in today's product computer world - customer satisfaction. The book reminds us through the use of Leonardo DaVinci's laptop applications that we need to ensure mankind is the master of computer systems and computers serve our customer needs for new applications and do not become an end in themselves. He is not convinced machine will think for themselves or have personalities as hollywood has suggested in several movies. He shows a healthy skepticism about where we are headed and defines some of the existing top notch research projects. His position at University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction lab gives him a unique look into government use of computing which he discusses in the book. A most useful book to career government computer people.
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