What is Computer Science?
nComputer science is a science of abstraction
– creating the right model
for a problem and devising the
appropriate mechanizable technique to
solve it.
–A. Aho and J. Ullman
nNot the “science of
computers.”
nMany concepts were
framed and studied before the electronic
computer.
nTo the mathematicians and
logicians of the
‘20’s and ‘30’s, a computer was a person with pencil and paper.