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Computer Science

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How and when did it emerge?

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Started in 1843 - English Mathematician Ada Lovelace Modern computer science born in the 1940s - Alan Turing

Conflicting arguments

How is it studied?

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A systematic study
"What can be efficiently automated?

Process

  1. Theory
  2. Experimentation
  3. Design


How has it changed?

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Digital computing was made possible with the transistor in the 1950s Computing was limited within the government until Steve Wozniak from Apple in 1976

Examples and non-examples

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Examples: AI, Software, numerical, nonnumerical Non-examples: Electric engineering, Hardware

Citations:

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http://denninginstitute.com/pjd/PUBS/ENC/cs99.pdf