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Computing, I think is just as important a field as engineering.
In fact I don't see boundaries really between fields.
In fact I see a blurring of those boundaries,
because people are working at the intersection of the fields.
Often times, the most challenging problems are at those intersections
when you bring a computer scientist and an engineer together
you get vehicles like the autonomous vehicle that navigates itself.
Really think about computing as a revolution and as an evolution.
It wasn't too long ago that Alan Turing came up with his first machine
called a computing machine, 1935.
Fast forward about 10 years to 1946.
We had the first computer called the ENIAC right.
And the ENIAC occupied a room, which is several thousand square feet
and weighed about 30 tons.
It had 18,000 vacuum tubes, and it did a whopping 5,000 operations per second.
5,000 operations per second, which was the state-of-the-art back in 1946.
Fast forward to today.
Young person walking into a classroom is walking in with an iPhone.
An iPhone does billions of operations per second.
So in the space of six decades
we've gone from 5,000 operations per second to a billion operations per second.
But wait, it takes pictures, it takes videos, it sends text messages,
and by the way occasionally we might make a phone call.
Now when you think about the invention.
I'm sure Alexander Graham Bell never envisioned
that the telephone was invented would be use to make all of these things.
What made it happen? Computing made it happen.
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