At its first meeting of the 1973 winter quarter, the Michigan Tech Faculty Senate approved the university’s first undergraduate Computer Science (CS) curriculum, and in 1974 the first Bachelor of ...

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1985: The "universal quantum computer" One of the foundational concepts in computer science is the idea of the universal Turing machine. Introduced by its namesake in 1936, this is a particular kind ...

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About this series: This story is part of an ongoing Purdue Today series highlighting programs ranked in the Top 10 or Top 10th percentile among our peers nationally, demonstrating the university’s ...