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thanks for the nudge :-) My understanding of the term "history of CS" would be "how CS evolved", as a field. How do we think about "processing 'data' with com
by froh 2y ago
thanks for the nudge :-)
My understanding of the term "history of CS" would be "how CS evolved", as a field. How do we think about "processing 'data' with computers". what can we compute? what are limitations in how fast we can compute? how to we talk about and present algorithms, prescriptions for these computations? how do we talk about data and how we structure it (leading to SQL, and sgml/xml/JSON)?
Pagerank in contrast is a very specific type of breakthrough, a breakthrough for it's application domain. But it's not a breakthrough for how we compute or how we think about computation.
does that make sense?