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Applied Computing

A field of computing defined by the outside discipline it serves rather than by a computing technique of its own: applying computation to a scientific, artistic or other external domain. Belongs here: Bioinformatics, which applies computation to biological data, and Computer Music, which applies computation to musical composition and sound. Does not belong here: a field defined by a general computational technique with no single external domain, such as Machine Learning, filed under Computing Methodologies instead.

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Era of Emergence
1963 CE 1
Applied Computing
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1. Wikipedia: Sketchpad
WikipediaSketchpad, lead section, field subcategory use
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Sketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012.
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