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  • Computer programming (often simply programming or informally, coding) is the craft of writing a set of commands or instructions that can later be compiled...
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  • Alan Perlis (category Computer scientists from the United States)
    computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages, most notably as a member of the team that developed the ALGOL programming language...
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  • Fortran (category Programming languages)
    Programming Language Design.  in Sigact/Sigplan Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages. October 1973. , reprinted in Horowitz. Programming Languages...
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  • only version 1.0. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying...
    3 KB (361 words) - 13:58, 17 November 2022
  • Richard Hamming (category Computer scientists from the United States)
    thinking. cited in: John G. Kemeny, ‎Thomas E. Kurtz, Structured BASIC programming (1987) p. 118 1968 Turing Award lecture, Journal of the ACM 16 (1), January...
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  • Alan Turing (category Computer scientists from the United Kingdom)
    Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist...
    29 KB (4,264 words) - 17:37, 25 August 2023
  • Information retrieval (category Computer science)
    research and degree programs in computer science... I think of the Computer Science Department as eventually including experts in Programming, Numerical Analysis...
    15 KB (2,200 words) - 09:58, 7 May 2015
  • Smalltalk (category Programming languages)
    reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis...
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  • Video game (redirect from Computer games)
    interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster...
    85 KB (10,279 words) - 14:53, 29 January 2026
  • Saul Gorn (category Computer scientists)
    Saul Gorn (10 November 1912 – 22 February 1992) was a pioneer in computer and information science who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied...
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  • they embody. ...whenever we create paintings, songs, poems, books, computer programs—or ideas in the minds of children—we do something of this sort. The...
    30 KB (4,148 words) - 18:09, 12 November 2024
  • that can be programmed into computers. At no point, however, the scientist intend to loose control of the situation because off the computer does some of...
    14 KB (2,065 words) - 19:56, 6 March 2023
  • includes dynamic analysis, mathematical models, simulation, linear programming, data logging, computing, optimating, etc., etc. It connotes an optimum...
    33 KB (4,721 words) - 20:46, 1 April 2025
  • on programming language issues. They tend to cast all discussions in terms of the syntax and semantics of their chosen object-oriented programming language...
    7 KB (993 words) - 13:33, 20 March 2026
  • computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer. Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires TV program (1996)...
    37 KB (5,359 words) - 08:39, 22 April 2026
  • Bateson, Vayda, Rappaport, Adams, and an interest in the use of computers, programming, matrices, etc. But the interaction between general systems theory...
    25 KB (3,510 words) - 13:51, 31 December 2023
  • fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages. There are a lotta computer languages out...
    51 KB (7,660 words) - 11:11, 24 April 2026
  • John von Neumann (category Computer scientists from the United States)
    Machinery, p. 694. ‍'‍...Several versions of [computer] background wiring and their corresponding source [programming] languages were under discussion, each...
    144 KB (21,644 words) - 12:20, 20 March 2026
  • {\displaystyle h} is... Plank's constant. It said that energy and frequency are the same thing measured in different units. Plank's constant gives you a rate of exchange...
    55 KB (7,483 words) - 07:39, 22 April 2025
  • teach, and we are doing a disservice if we are not constantly changing how we teach, how programs are constructed, and how people are trained. We are...
    3 KB (382 words) - 19:48, 5 November 2025