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“Proper” computer science as studied and understood in academia is really a branch of mathematics, not science.

• mkirklions 8y ago
  The last 10 years of seeing Academia decide what is a valid has convinced me Academia has limited weight in the real world. Don't sweat their opinion, Industry drives the world.
  • goatlover 8y ago
    Let us hope that commercial interests don't drive science.
    • msla 8y ago
      Let us hope that as many things as possible drive science, as serendipity is the heart of new discovery.
• ziaddotcom 8y ago
  This dichotomy keeps popping up in the comments. I think Academia is resolving and leveling up beyond this. https://eecs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/abet_letter_to_everyone_rev7.pdf https://eecs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/abet_letter_to... Also when MIT moved to python vs scheme not to dumb down the CS, but to more emphasize combing and programming complex systems on the fly (robotics etc).
• msla 8y ago
  It's a branch of mathematics which wouldn't be considered a single branch without the practical concerns of programming driving it. You have everything from computability, sure, but you also have queuing theory (networking), formal grammars (parsers, compilers), relational algebra (database queries), and whatever else I'm forgetting, all under one banner, because all of them are useful to the same practical field.
• UncleMeat 8y ago
  I guess I should return my PhD that was full of measurements and experimental work. These artificial categories are fuzzy and not very useful.