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The history of computer science

The history of computer science

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The history of computer science

- Computer science. This is the study of computers, their uses for design, computation, system control. My field of study. Now, I'm a lifelong nerd. And when I say nerd, I mean full-blown 100% nerd. Star Trek. Little bit of Star Wars. Anything to do with space. Battlestar Galactica, which I strongly recommend. These things really formed my worldview, growing up, about technology and its capabilities, which led me to get into writing software about when I was 11. I got to really get involved in the early stages of communication between computers. Bulletin-Board Systems back in the early '90s, BBS. Those viewers who actually were involved know how epic and awesome a BBS was. It was a really novel concept. You would login, and you would send messages to your friend, and post status updates. Does that sound familiar at all? That's right. Social media's not new; we had it in the early '90s in BBSs. But this is computer science. It's using computers to do significant tasks that the human…

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