The Tears of Donald Knuth – Communications of the ACM

Author(s):: Thomas Haigh

In this column I will be looking at the changing relationship between the discipline of computer science and the growing body of scholarly work on the history of computing, beginning with a recent plea made by renowned computer scientist Donald Knuth. This provides an opportunity to point you toward some interesting recent work on the history of computer science and to think more broadly about what the history of computing is, who is writing it, and for whom they are writing.

Topics:: #cacm #computer-science #cs #history #knuth

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date_published:: 2015-01-01 00:00:00