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Ubiquity Symposium: What is Computation?
Table of Contents
Introduction to the symposium, by Peter J. Denning
1. What is Computation? Opening Statement, by Peter J. Denning
2. The Evolution of Computation, by Peter Wegner
3. Computation is Symbol Manipulation, by John Conery
4. Computation is Process, by Dennis J. Frailey
5. Computing and Computation, by Paul Rosenbloom
6. Computation and Information, by Ruzena Bajcsy
7. Computation and Fundamental Physics, by Dave Bacon
8. The Enduring Legacy of the Turing Machine, by Lance Fortnow
9. Computation and Computational Thinking, by Al Aho
10. What is the Right Computational Abstraction for Continuous Scientific Problems?, by Joseph Traub
11. Computation, Uncertainty, and Risk, by Jeffrey P. Buzen
12. Natural Computation, by Erol Gelenbe
13. Biological Computation, by Melanie Mitchell
14. What is Information?, by Paolo Rocchi
15. Consideration of the Question 'What is Computation?' Considered Harmful, by Peter Freeman
16. What Have We Said About Computation? Closing Statement, by Peter J. Denning