Michael Littman, who leads the computer science department at Rutgers University, agrees.
Apple led the computer market with 22.9 million iPads and 4.1 million Macs sold.
Lazarus helped pioneer the development of computers for large-scale calculations and led the computer division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Leading the computer industry's invasion is a new device known as the Media Center PC, with a processor designed by Intel and software created by Microsoft.
But Nokia faces a direct challenge as Microsoft leads the computer industry on to its turf; its continued dominance of the mobile-phone industry is by no means assured, since it is not based on the ownership of proprietary standards.
A celebrated case in point was Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Having produced record earnings at RJR Nabisco, he was hired by I.B.M., where he led the computer giant, then struggling, to a dramatic turnaround in the 1990s.
The disappointment led the computer maker's shares to fall 7.6%, or $1.10, to $13.22 Friday afternoon.
Instead, it had made a new kind of transition, says geophysicist Ronald Cohen of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., who led the computer simulation of the iron monoxide.
The embattled PC company today announced that it has received all necessary regulatory clearance for Michael Dell, who founded and led the computer firm as CEO and chairman, and Silver Lake Partners to take the company private in a $24.9 billion transaction.
For under $100, this leads the computer accessory category that will "wow" people.
