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Ubiquity symposium 'What is computation?': Computing and computation

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In this fifth article in the ACM Ubiquity symposium on What is computation? Paul S. Rosenbloom explains why he believes computing is the fourth great scientific domain, on par with the physical, life, and social sciences. Editor

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        Ubiquity  Volume 2010, Issue December
        December 2010
        42 pages
        EISSN:1530-2180
        DOI:10.1145/1895419
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