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Computer Science

How and when did it emerge?

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

Conflicting arguments

How is it studied?

A systematic study
"What can be efficiently automated?

Process

Theory
Experimentation
Design

How has it changed?

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

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

Citations:

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