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- ↑ Ashlee Vance; Jeff Broido (November 18, 2008). "Teaching Everyone to Speak Big Blue". The New York Times .
- I taught myself Cornell's own student language, CUPL
- ↑ David Gries (2015-07-31). "A Conversation with Richard W. Conway".
- ↑ Elder, Howard A. (July 1969). On the feasibility of voice input to an on-line computer processing system. Computer Science (Technical report). Cornell University. 69-38. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ↑ Retrocomputing Museum