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What should it be called then? I saw suggestions for computing science, but applications often don’t ‘compute’ anything rather make API calls. Data science does
by trixie_ 5y ago
What should it be called then? I saw suggestions for computing science, but applications often don’t ‘compute’ anything rather make API calls. Data science doesn’t seem to fit.
The best I can come up with is ‘instruction science’ the study of how to structure, execute and store sequences of instructions. The computer is a tool to do it faster, but you can also use pen and paper, it would just take longer.
- jltsiren 5y agoI kind of like the Finnish term "tietojenkäsittelytiede" ("data processing science") and its older form "tietojenkäsittelyoppi" ("data processing theory"). It combines the focus on the process in computer science / computing with the focus on the data in datalogy / informatics. It tells that the process is what we are really interested in. At the same time, it admits that the data and the results are what ultimately matters and that computation is just an irrelevant side effect we would like to avoid.