“Computer-aided design is not automatic design, although it must include many automatic design features. By automatic design we mean design procedures which are capable of being completely specified in a form which a computer can execute without human intervention.”

—  Douglas T. Ross

Source: Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960), p. 2.

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American computer scientist 1929–2007

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