The malleability is understandable when we realize that at the beginning the computing community was very uncertain as to what its topic was really about and got in this respect very little guidance from the confused and confusing world by which it was surrounded. The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can … Continue reading Edsger W. Dijkstra