Title :

Why did computer science make a hero out of Turing?

Author(s) :

Bullynck, Maarten [Auteur]
Centre de recherches historiques : histoire des pouvoirs, savoirs et sociétés
Daylight, Edgar G. [Auteur]
De Mol, Liesbeth [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Journal title :

Communications of the ACM

Pages :

37-39

Publisher :

Association for Computing Machinery

Publication date :

2015-02-23

ISSN :

0001-0782

English keyword(s) :

History and philosophy of computing

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

English abstract : [en]

This paper analyses the celebration of Turing as one of the heroes of computer science. This is done by (1) a comparison with the way C.F. Gauss has been instrumentalized in mathematics and (2) a historical study of two ...
Show more >This paper analyses the celebration of Turing as one of the heroes of computer science. This is done by (1) a comparison with the way C.F. Gauss has been instrumentalized in mathematics and (2) a historical study of two historical moments that help understand Turing's current status in computer science.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Oui

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL