Three Debates about Computing

  • Matti Tedre
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7921)

Abstract

Computing as a discipline has a short but vivid history. Computing started to develop a disciplinary identity only after the birth of the stored-program paradigm in the 1940s, and its academic image has seen dramatic changes in the past six decades. This article presents three debates that are central in understanding how computing as a discipline developed to what it is now: the formal verification debate, the software engineering debate, and the experimental computer science debate.

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Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science Modern Computing Automatic Computing Disciplinary Identity 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Matti Tedre
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  1. 1.Department of Computer and Systems SciencesStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden

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