computer scientist
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Alan Turing's famous ideas about artificial intelligence may have sent AI research down the wrong path for the past 75 years, according to prominent computer scientist Peter J. Denning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Professor Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at Surrey University, compared it with building a big block of flats rather than houses in a city.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
“I would say that, absent the Trump branding, most industry experts would say that the phone is not a good value at that price point,” Edwards, also Quandary Peak’s principal computer scientist, told Salon.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
The key position of NSF director has been unfilled ever since Sethuraman Panchanathan, a computer scientist and academic administrator, resigned in April 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
“Programming with cards,” one computer scientist from that era remembers, “did not teach you programming. It taught you patience and proofreading.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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