Computer science: past, present, and future

Computing research has made remarkable advances, but there's much more to be accomplished. The next few decades of advances should be even more significant, and even more interesting, than the past few.

The National Science Foundation has created the ...

Until the advent of computers, numerical analysis was not considered an attractive area of study. The early computers, designed as they were to attack some of the nation's pressing engineering and scientific problems, sparked an enormous interest in the ...

In barely half a century computer science has grown from infancy to maturity. Employment in computer science was assured until a few years ago. Today, however, like in the 1960s, when demand for physicists waned, computer scientists are eager to explore ...