"Fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it."
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Columbia University facultyCanadian computer scientistsCanadian people of Finnish descentColumbia School of Engineering and Applied Science facultyFellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Foundations of Computer Science, Chapter 1 by Al Aho and Jeff Ullman
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