TITLE: Computer Science Everywhere, Christmas Eve Edition
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: December 24, 2014  2:05 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 Urmson says Google is better positioned than a traditional automaker
 to crack the riddle of self-driving, because it's more about software
 than hardware: "When you look at what we're doing, on the surface,
 you see a vehicle.  But the heart of it is computer science.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

That is Chris Urmson, the head of Google's self-driving car program,
quoted in
<A HREF="http://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-2014/google-self-driving-car.html">
   this article</A>.
(Apparently, senior citizens are a natural market for driverless cars.)

Everywhere we look these days, we see gadgets.  Increasingly, though,
at the heart of them is computer science.
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