TY  - JOUR
TI  - Computer science as empirical inquiry
AU  - Allen Newell
AU  - Herbert A. Simon
PY  - 1976
JO  - Communications of the ACM
DO  - 10.1145/360018.360022
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1145/360018.360022
AB  - Computer science is the study of the phenomena surrounding computers. The founders of this society understood this very well when they called themselves the Association for Computing Machinery. The machine—not just the hardware, but the programmed, living machine—is the organism we study.
ER  -