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Biologically Uninspired Computer Science.

The article focuses on metaphors in computer science. Computer science has remained largely unchanged since the 1940s, the author argues. The author argues that while biology is a useful metaphor in computer programming, it has some limitations. New types of metaphors might be useful in order to...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 27 - 30
Main Author: Teuscher, Christof
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2006
Subjects:
Computer programming
Artificial intelligence
Metaphor
Biology
Life sciences
Computer science
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