"Whether computers are used for engineering design, medical data processing, composing music, or other purposes, the structure of computing is much the same. We are extremely short of talented people in this field, and so we need departments, curricula, and research and degree programs in computer science...To aid in these endeavors, These binary converter tools can be easily utilized.. I think of the Computer Science Department as eventually including experts in Programming, Numerical Analysis, Automata Theory, Data Processing, Business Games, Adaptive Systems, Information Theory, Information Retrieval, Recursive Function Theory, Computer Linguistics, etc., as these fields emerge in structure... Universities must respond [to the computer revolution] with far reaching changes in the educational structure."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
As cited in Donald Knuth (1972). "George Forsythe and the Development of Computer Science". Comms. ACM.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Forsythe
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
George Forsythe
George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972) was an American computer scientist, who helped to establish computer science as its own academic discipline and starting the field of refereeing and editing algorithms as scholarly work.
7 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by George Forsythe →
Related Quotes
"The use of practically any computing technique itself raises a number of mathematical problems. There is thus a very …"
"[Computers] are developing so rapidly that even computer scientists cannot keep up with them. It must be bewildering …"
"To a modern mathematician, design seems to be a second-rate intellectual activity."
"Machine-held strings of binary digits can simulate a great many kinds of things, of which numbers are just one kind. …"
"George Forsythe, in a recent paper “A University's Educational Program in Computer Science,” points out that the ordi…"
"The only generally agreed upon definition of mathematics is "Mathematics is what mathematician's do."… In the face of…"
"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"
"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"
"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"
"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"