Pith Number

pith:YCY4IUOD

pith:2017:YCY4IUOD46OYPJVMZBKCW5G2GI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Challenges to Keeping the Computer Industry Centered in the US

Erik P. Debenedictis, Mark D. Hill, R. Stanley Williams, Thomas M. Conte

arxiv:1706.10267 v1 · 2017-06-30 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YCY4IUOD46OYPJVMZBKCW5G2GI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:41:08.986075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0b1c451c3e79d87a6acc8542b74da322acc930fa32cc1b972463186e5594fe1

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.10267 · arxiv_version: 1706.10267v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.10267 · pith_short_12: YCY4IUOD46OY · pith_short_16: YCY4IUOD46OYPJVM · pith_short_8: YCY4IUOD

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YCY4IUOD46OYPJVMZBKCW5G2GI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c0b1c451c3e79d87a6acc8542b74da322acc930fa32cc1b972463186e5594fe1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83a219a1855df7c928729b988f335285d26076cbdc15e7c59ec83fc1697b9e55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-30T16:47:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4e29a5001c5455d109bbc472e6bec9449cbc5787b3ec5e4293e292f954fc74c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.10267",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}