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        Date: 2025-02-27 08:05:53+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: 'computing'?

Have the terms 'artificial intelligence' (for research) and 'AI' (for
the products) in effect replaced the use of 'computer' and related
forms? In other words, is the major focus of interest (for whom?) on the
intelligence of the machine rather than its functionality of application
for this or that discipline?

If the above is true to a significant degree, then I worry about the
loss of attention to the machine and its engineering. See, for example,
Richard Hamming's 1968 ACM Turing Award Lecture, "One Man's View of
Computer Science", Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery
16.1, January 1969, 3-12. Have we all lost interest in the workings of
the machine itself?

Comments?

Yours,
WM

--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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