Computer science as empirical inquiry

1976/03/01 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon · 22 citations
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #Big Data and Digital Economy

paper · doi:10.1145/360018.360022

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Abstract

Computer science is the study of the phenomena surrounding computers. The founders of this society understood this very well when they called themselves the Association for Computing Machinery. The machine—not just the hardware, but the programmed, living machine—is the organism we study.

Citations

• I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE
• Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I

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