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Computer Science[edit | edit source]

How and when did it emerge?[edit | edit source]


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

Conflicting arguments

How is it studied?[edit | edit source]


A systematic study
"What can be efficiently automated?

Process

  1. Theory
  2. Experimentation
  3. Design


How has it changed?[edit | edit source]


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[edit | edit source]

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

Citations:[edit | edit source]

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