21 APR 2011 by ideonexus
L Peter Deutsch: Computer Science is Not Science
I have a little bit of a rant about computer science also. I could make a pretty strong case that the word science should not be applied to computing. I think essentially all of what's called computer science is some combination of engineering and applied mathematics. I think very little of it is science in terms oft of the scientific process, is, where what you're doing is developing better descriptions of observed phenomena.Folksonomies: computer science
Folksonomies: computer science
It is applied mathematics and engineering.