Computing

Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical calculations.

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The following definition of computing is given in the ACM report Computing As a Discipline:

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The discipline of computing is the systematic study of algorithmic processes that describe and transform information: their theory, analysis, design, efficiency, implementation, and application. The fundamental question underlying all the computing is 'What can be (efficiently) automated?'

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