Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:52:02 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education References: Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:52:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87lh0g2ugd.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9Aoy5txodXNOwqMPr//oAEAKYm0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-5xBidtqp7xHISKesdfupxA7SPhGjphNkbzQyrYord9DVDTgy2pCdo1V16oi+DN4SDTbupLrvLKlll/m!eD4vjCZJ3G6nMN/Y4VUFqXSI9+NDjq0chohUbFOhiohITJDFmKzZJuIGDVfily65/2o= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2422 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:91512 Tim Rentsch writes: > "J. Clarke" writes: > >> In article , nospam@nspam.invalid says... >> >>> I was told that DMR' thesis was in "recursive functions". Now I've >>> always assumed maybe being wrong that back then this may have been a >>> mathematics recursive functions and he was a Mathematician. Does anyone know >>> if his PhD was mathematics or computer science? >>> >>> Bill >> >> There's an interview that addresses this a little bit at >> . >> >> Remember, though, this was Harvard, where the computer as we know it was >> _invented_. They were _doing_ what we now call "computer science" long >> before there was a name for it. > > I thought the computer as we know it was invented at the University > of Pennsylvania and the group at the Institute for Advanced Studies. > There were several precursors, including the Harvard Mark I, but > they are not computers as we know them today. In particular, IIUC, > the Harvard Mark I was not Turing complete. Yeah, well as a holder of a degree from the University of Manchester, I say YAH BOO SUCKS to all you lot. If it ain't executing a stored program, then it ain't a "computer as we know it". (See also "The Myth of the Lone Inventor")