<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div style=""><div>On Dec 2, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Fishwick, Paul <<a href="mailto:pxf130430@utdallas.edu">pxf130430@utdallas.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Dec 2, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Willard McCarty <<a href="mailto:willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk">willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear all (from the sidelines),<br><br>I agree that the history and philosophy of computing belong in close proximity to each other, that both are rich and important fields -- and I'd like to see the usually far too utilitarian digital humanities (at the intersection of computing and the humanities) brought into the discussion. It's the intersecting that makes it valuable here. I particularly like Mike Mahoney's comment that the question "is computer science a science" is actually two questions: "what happens to computing if you call it a science?" and "what do you mean by 'science' if computing is one?”</blockquote><div><br></div>This is one response to these two questions:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2601381.2601391">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2601381.2601391</a></div><div><br></div><div>-p</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Yours,<br>WM<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
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