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Yeah. If anything, I would say it means they're not a "real computer scientist," whatever that means. Just to put the second part of your comment in perspecti
by pmiller2 6y ago
Yeah. If anything, I would say it means they're not a "real computer scientist," whatever that means.
Just to put the second part of your comment in perspective, there have only been 3 female winners of the Turing award, total, by my count.
- dspillett 6y ago> a "real computer scientist," whatever that means At university we would say that computer science was the art, where programming was the craft[1]. It is probably fairer to state that programming is an application of the science. [1] Though with less of a sneery tone than used when people said "mathematics is the art where computer science is the craft"
- mumblemumble 6y agoI think that this might be exploring the analogy's breaking point. It can be quite easy to draw a clean line between theoreticians and implementors in other fields. Biologists and veterinarians, physicists and engineers, etc. But who was the last major computer science theoretician who wasn't also a skilled programmer or system architect (or both)? Alonzo Church?
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoAfter looking through all the Turing Award winners, my answer is Stephen Cook - a CS mathematician who did nothing on engineering, discovered the concept of NP-completeness.