End Notes
Chapter One
1 The Geek of the Week interview was actually done by Richard Morris on 26 November 2009. www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/donald-knuth-geek-of-the-week/
Chapter Six
1 Karen Spärck Jones, (1972) ‘Statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval,’ Journal of Documentation, 28:1, 11–21
Chapter Eight
1 This report was published in Nature 438, pp. 900–901 (15 December 2005), doi: 10.1038/438900a.
Chapter Nine
1 Xansa plc was acquired by Steria SCA in October 2007.
2 Freelance Programmers became F International in 1974 and FI Group in 1988. In 1991, Steve Shirley sold a controlling interest in FI to the workforce. In 2001, the company’s name was changed to Xansa.
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