"PITTSBURGH — March 26, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. and Carnegie Mellon University today announced the creation of the Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Thinking. The center was made possible through a three-year, $1.5 million grant from Microsoft."

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  1. Perhaps from a philosophy POV, they would do better to get to the basics of abstraction physics before going onto the illusion that thinking in terms of computation is something to credit the computing machine with, rather than the humans who created the machine for all it is.

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