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#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

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What Is the Mindset of Computing?

I think that what distinguishes the computationalist from others is that he or she understands that models, languages, and machines are equivalent. So it's a science because the models fundamentally represent truths in the world. Information is a scientific thing to discover, right? Not just a mathematical conceit that gets created. And we would do better if we made that more explicit.

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