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Computer science as empirical inquiry

Communications of the ACM · 1976 · Vol. 19(3) · pp. 113–126

Allen Newell✉(Carnegie Mellon University)Herbert A. Simon(Carnegie Mellon University)

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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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