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Professor Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. In his TED Talk in 2006 he makes the following thought provoking statement:
"Computer Science is one of the worst things that happened to either computers or to science"
Out of context this is a very polarizing arguably confusing statement coming from a professor at MIT. If you think about the last 61 years there have been some tremendous advancements because of companies that built computers like Dell, HP, Apple, Compaq, Acer, and IBM. Then in the last 17 years companies and organizations including Google, AOL, Wikipedia and Yahoo brought information to anyone with an internet connection. It is pretty remarkable that every student in grade school currently has access to more information than is stored in the library of congress for the cost of an internet connection, a computer, and the time to find it. So how could he make such a statement?
He goes on to say:
"because the cannon of…
"Computer Science is one of the worst things that happened to either computers or to science"
Out of context this is a very polarizing arguably confusing statement coming from a professor at MIT. If you think about the last 61 years there have been some tremendous advancements because of companies that built computers like Dell, HP, Apple, Compaq, Acer, and IBM. Then in the last 17 years companies and organizations including Google, AOL, Wikipedia and Yahoo brought information to anyone with an internet connection. It is pretty remarkable that every student in grade school currently has access to more information than is stored in the library of congress for the cost of an internet connection, a computer, and the time to find it. So how could he make such a statement?
He goes on to say:
"because the cannon of…