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How WWII Was Won, and Why CS Students Feel Unappreciated

By John Arquilla, Jeremy Roschelle
Communications of the ACM, August 2020, Vol. 63 No. 8, Pages 6-7
10.1145/3403958
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Observations of the 75^th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe (May 8, 1945) included remembrances of such searing events as the struggle on Omaha Beach on D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and at least some recognition of the enormous contribution made by the Russian people to the defeat of Fascism. Yet in all this, I suspect the role of the first "high-performance computing" capabilities of the Allies—known as Ultra in Britain, Magic in the U.S.—will receive too little attention.

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