Noun
The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
Source: Webster's dictionaryUnderstanding is, after all, what science is all about - and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. Roger Penrose
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. Rudy Rucker
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. Seth Lloyd
Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction. Donald Norman
Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. David Deutsch
If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed. Hans Christian von Baeyer