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This chapter is neither a summary of the book, nor a conclusion. If you want a very simple summary, the book’s title—Vision and Actualization: Georgia Tech’s College of Computing—was chosen to do just that; it is not a conclusion because the story continues. The portion of the story presented here begins in 1947 with the installation of an analog computer on campus and continues to about 2020.
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
—Frank Herbert
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It was relatively easy to determine the date of the first modern computer on campus (1947), but one could argue that such a computer and even very early digital computers may have been used by Georgia Tech faculty and/or students earlier. Likewise, one could argue that 1947 is too early and it should be around 1954 when the first digital computer was installed. Similarly, the cutoff date for the narrative (2020) is not a bright line, by any means. For reasons explained in earlier chapters, the narrative starts to thin out after about 2010 and actually mentions a few events as late as 2023!
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“Peter Freeman,” College of Computing Website, b.gatech.edu/3QT2ocC. Accessed 11/12/2023.
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In this chapter, I will refer to names, periods, and events without explanation if they have been covered in previous chapters. If you are reading this without having read the previous chapters, you should still be able to understand the points I am trying to convey.
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Freeman, P.A. (2024). Epilogue. In: Vision and Actualization in Academia. History of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43930-8_9
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