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When does Computer Science become software, and vice versa?
I'm preparing an introductory talk on healthcare software. I keep finding myself writing things like "Computer Scientists and software developers", "the gains of computer science and software development". Is there a term that includes both?
- yan 18y agoI'd say "software engineers" since engineering is usually what gets across that boundary between theory and practice.
- graywh 18y ago"Computer scientists" is kind of awkward and would only be valid for labeling academics (aka professors). Besides, "computer science" is a terrible term. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3674140982294628000&ei=bbZISO7vAqiSrAKzhdGWDA http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3674140982294628000...
- michael_dorfman 18y agoHow does Computer Science find its way into an introductory talk on healthcare software? If you tell us a few of the points you are trying to make, we might be able to suggest alternate phrasings. (As an aside; I was a healthcare software developer in a previous life, and I can't recall much Computer Science coming into it, except in the most indirect ways...)