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Spanish and Canadian newspapers. His biographical entries appear in Who’s Who in America,
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He has published numerous papers and essays on the cognitive-historical-biographical aspects of creativity in art, science, technology and scholarship in such print journals as
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Twilight of the Bengal
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Twilight of the Bengal
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Dasgupta's research from 1972 through 1991 spanned such branches of
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Computer scientist, creativity researcher, intellectual historian, writer
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160:(UNDP). Dasgupta has featured in interviews and articles in multiple
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The Second Age of Computer Science: From Algol Genes to Neural Nets
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The Second Age of Computer Science: From Algol Genes to Neural Nets
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Computer Architecture: A Modern Synthesis. Volume 1: Foundations
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Computer Architecture: A Modern Synthesis, Volume 1: Foundations
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Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western Science
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Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western Science
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University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology
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It Began with Babbage : The Genesis of Computer Science
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Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology
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The Design and Description of Computer Architectures
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The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon
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The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon
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Computer Science and the Sciences of the Artificial
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273:Awakening: The Story of the Bengal Renaissance
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