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Russell Fish Hopes to Redefine the Computer Industry

By Glenna Whitley

Dallas Observer | November 21, 2007

His current project promises to top them all: a new "computer architecture" enabling applications like cell phones that translate languages and computers that reduce the time it takes to sequence DNA from months to days.

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Tags: computers & technology

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