Latin and Greek in Computing: Ancient Words in a New World

Reviriego Vasallo, Pedro; Merino Gómez, Elena; Lombardi, Fabrizio

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Latin and Greek in Computing: Ancient Words in a New World

Author(s): Reviriego Vasallo, Pedro; Merino Gómez, Elena; Lombardi, Fabrizio

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Issued date: 2022-06-06

Citation: Reviriego, P., Merino-Gomez, E., & Lombardi, F. (2022). Latin and Greek in Computing: Ancient Words in a New World. In Computer, 55(6), 66–72.

ISSN: 0018-9162

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.2022.3149447

xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-contributor-funder: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)

Sponsor: We thank Mariano Arnal for his comments and suggestions on words and their origins. This work was supported in part by the ACHILLES project PID2019-104207RB-I00 funded by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación 10.13039/501100011033. (We can see that Greek mythology also influences researchers when naming their projects. In our case, we took the name from the famous character in Homers' Iliad.)

Publisher version: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9789305

Project: Gobierno de España. PID2019-104207RB-I00

Keywords: Computer science education , Educational courses , History , Text analysis , Old words , Basic computing science , Engineering courses , Common ancient words , History , Internet , Cryptography , Computers , Semantics

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/35677

Abstract:

In computing, old words are reused by giving them new meanings. However, many people may not be aware of the origin of ancient words that have found new uses in computing. We advocate for basic computing science and engineering courses to cover the origins of [+]

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