Title | Why Did Computer Science Make a Hero out of Turing? |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | In Press |
Authors | Bullynck, M, Daylight, E, De Mol, L |
Journal | Communications of the ACM |
Abstract | A viewpoint, co-authored by M. Bullynck, E. Daylight and L. De Mol, to be published in the March 2015 Issue of the Communications of the ACM. It discusses some stages of Turing's consecration as the hero of computer science and makes a comparison with Gauss' consecration in mathematics. The viewpoint wants to make people more aware of the function of heroes for a discipline and closes with a call for generosity and openness of a discipline and its history. |
URL | http://www.kuttaka.org/CACM_rev2_simple.pdf |