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COMPUTER SCIENCE: THE DISCIPLINE . Peter J. DENNING August 1997. Revised July 1999. Copyright 1999 by Peter J. DENNING . You may make one exact copy for personal use. Any other copying or distribution requires explicit permission. This article will appear in the 2000 Edition of Encyclopedia of COMPUTER Science (A. Ralston and D. Hemmendinger, Eds). The computing profession is the people and institutions that have been created to take care of other people's concerns in information processing and coordination through worldwide communication systems. The profession contains various specialties such as COMPUTER science, COMPUTER engineering, software engineering, information systems, domain-specific applications, and COMPUTER systems.
-3-Standard Concerns of the Field The digital computer plays the central role in the field because it is a universal computing machine: with enough memory, a digital computer is
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