Peter J. Denning – The Great Principles of Computing

Dr. Peter J. Denning, an American computer scientist at the Naval Postgraduate School, California, presented The Great Principles of Computing on Thursday, May 19, 2011, at NSF Stafford.

Presentation Summary: Barely 70 years old, our computing field has matured and achieved a level of influence on par with older fields of science. Our journey has had its tribulations and triumphs and we have changed our declared self-image several times. A recent ACM symposium on the core question, “What is computation?”, revealed that in the past two decades we have achieved a remarkable consensus on the subject of our studies and practices. Computing is no longer a study of computers, their uses and their limits; it is the study of information processes, both natural and artificial. Computing offers principles, insights, understanding, and direction in each of the seven categories computation, communication, coordination, recollection, automation, evaluation, and design. This framework will be discussed and compared with the more familiar technology-oriented frameworks of computing.

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