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COMPUTER SCIENCE: “Anything which has to call itself a Science isn't”

When our discipline was newborn, there was the usual perplexity as to its proper name. We at Chapel Hill, following, I believe, Allen Newell and Herb Simon, settled on “computer science” as our department’s name. Now, with the benefit of three decades’ hindsight, I believe that to have been a mistake.... Fred Brooks

 

Brooks, Fred (1996). "The computer scientist as toolsmith II". Communications of the ACM. Association for Computing Machinery. 39 (3): 61–68. DOI: 10.1145/227234.227243

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