| | Computer Science Department - Lamar University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The department believes that the study of the foundations of computer science is exciting to students because it gives them confidence that they are on firm intellectual ground and it enables them to have truly innovative insights. |
 | | The fundamental and philosophical difference between learning theory and symbolic computation is that while symbolic computation is based on an exact deductive system, the learning process is largely based on inductive reasoning, where we try to inductively infer a general law from empirical data without total justification. |
 | | The study of higher-typed computation, also known as higher-ordered computation, has its origins in Stephen C. Kleenes works in the 1950s and early 1960s. |
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