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