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Communications: A Symbiotic Relationship January 2003 (vol. 36
no. 1) pp. 76-79 Robert M. Janowiak, International Engineering
Consortium  The communications and computing industries are both
enduring a difficult period brought on by too much success in
conveying their joint potential to investors and the broader
public. The relationship between these two industries, which
began almost at the birth of the modern computing industry, has
grown stronger and closer over the years. Just as computing
devices are becoming more communications-driven, communication
networks are becoming more computing-centric.  Computer-enabling
services such as broadband and high-speed wireless data will
succeed or fail based on how well they connect many millions of
people in useful ways. That?s something the communications
carriers have been doing for 125 years.  Robert M. Janowiak,
"Computers and Communications: A Symbiotic Relationship,"
Computer, vol. 36, no. 1, pp.