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Computer science as empirical inquiry: symbols and search

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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.

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                cover image Communications of the ACM
                Communications of the ACM  Volume 19, Issue 3
                March 1976
                53 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/360018
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