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NOV 01, 1961
The following is the text of an invited address presented at the banquet of a conference on superconductivity which was organized by IBM and held last June at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM’s new computer laboratory in Yorktown, N.Y.
A. B. Pippard

The thoughts that I am going to lay before you this evening are, I am afraid, serious thoughts, but they are not in any sense the distilled wisdom of much anxious pondering. They are more like random jottings all related to one central theme, and I hope you will take them in this spirit and forgive me if some of them seem wrong‐headed and none of them profound. I believe that, hidden in what I have to say, there is a message, but what this message is I am not very sure. Perhaps you can see it more clearly. It has something to do with the idea of Progress.

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A. B. Pippard. University of Cambridge.

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Volume 14, Number 11

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