“Whether computers are used for engineering design, medical data processing, composing music, or other purposes, the structure of computing is much the same. We are extremely short of talented people in this field, and so we need departments, curricula, and research and degree programs in computer science… I think of the Computer Science Department as eventually including experts in Programming, Numerical Analysis, Automata Theory, Data Processing, Business Games, Adaptive Systems, Information Theory, Information Retrieval, Recursive Function Theory, Computer Linguistics, etc., as these fields emerge in structure… Universities must respond [to the computer revolution] with far reaching changes in the educational structure.”

—  George Forsythe

As cited in Donald Knuth (1972). &quot;George Forsythe and the Development of Computer Science&quot; http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ICME/docs/history/forsythe_knuth.pdf. Comms. ACM. <br class="br">&quot;Educational implications of the computer revolution,&quot; 1963

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