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Why Did Computer Science Make a Hero Out of Turing?
- Source :
- Communications of the ACM; Mar2015, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p37-39, 3p, 1 Color Photograph
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The article looks at the role of 20th-century British computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing in the development of the computer science field, comparing it to the role played by 19th-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss in the development of the field of mathematics, on an institutional and political level as well as through their specific intellectual achievements. It notes that Turing's work foreshadowed the multidisciplinary nature of computer science.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00010782
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Communications of the ACM
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 101119743
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2658985