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While Turing, Church, and von Neumann pioneered computing at Princeton, its standalone department was established only decades later in 1985 under Sedgewick. According to Sedgewick, many at Princeton mocked the new department, saying that refrigerators deserved one too. As if the groundbreaking work on computational universality had never been done there at all.

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