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I agree with the sentiment, but I've actually come to consider "computer science" to be a great name for our field.

Turing's universal machine is the original dependency inversion of our field: instead of specifically studying the programs that can be written for any particular hardware device, we largely study phenomena that are regarded as computation as defined by the Church-Turing thesis, and require that the hardware vendors supply suitable universal machines which can instantiate the phenomena of our study. Or field is the science of computers -- every program is a blueprint for a computational device -- but we choose to simulate most of our blueprints using universal machines, so that we don't have to send each one off to the silicon fab separately.



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