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Computing as an evolving discipline

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Computing as an evolving discipline

Throughout computing's history, there have been dramatically different opinions on what computing, as a discipline, is "really" about. Each decade has changed our views of bleeding-edge technology, core knowledge in computing, the nature of computing as a discipline, and the essential skills and competence of computing professionals.

By Matti Tedre, October 2018

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What is computation?

What is computation?

Our culture is in the process of renegotiating what it thinks computation and computer really mean.

By Ian Horswill, March 2012

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By Justin Solomon, March 2007

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