Although many initially believed it was impossible that computers themselves could actually be a scientific field of study, in the late fifties it gradually became accepted among the greater academic population.
Aínda que inicialmente moitos creron que era imposible que as computadoras en si mesmas poderían constituír en realidade un campo científico de estudo, a finais dos anos cincuenta foise volvendo gradualmente aceptada entre a poboación maiormente académica.