Why Algorithms Matter: A Common Misunderstanding in Computing
Channel: PageWizard Games, Learning & Entertainment
Date: 2021-07-11

Why is it that we need Algorithms researchers, rigour when problem solving, in Computer Science? It is great imagination and intuition to solve problems mathematically that often leads to the discovery of how we can solve new problems in computing, or better understand processes. Why can't we just assume better computing power means we can do more things with computers? Dr. Richard Hamming, describes and answers this succinctly back in 1962. This is an important aspect of why things such as foundational theory in Computer Science (which is framed in the manner Hamming describes), not just computing as in using machines, matter. It is the ideas, the algorithms, and their provable guarantees, that lead to correct computational results.

Excerpt from "Logic by Machine"
YouTube: https://youtu.be/9jNKTbicxNU

Richard Hamming is a pioneering computer scientist, the inventor of Hamming Codes and considered the founder of coding theory.

Video edited by Dr. Daniel Page

Source: https://archive.org/details/Logic_by_Machine

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