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You probably know that arrogance, in computer science, is measured in nanodijkstras.
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Alan Kay, keynote speech at OOPSLA 1997

 

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.'

 

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The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.

 

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