My dad used to take me to the user groups back in Buffalo when I was a small lad back in the late 70's early 80's. I loved looking through the boxes of shareware disks for something good we could take ...

I remember being in the rec.photography newsgroup that eventually led to a users group of photographers also savvy in computers. Interesting time but now seems only like a faded dream of sorts. My how ...

Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Prologue -- "ALGOL genes" -- Abstractions all the way -- In the name of architecture -- Getting to know parallelism -- Very formal affairs -- A symbolic ...