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- From: schuette@wl.com (Wade Schuette)
- Subject: Re: Are computer "scientists" really scientists? (was: Are programmers Computer Scientists?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.095319.26940@wl.com>
- Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
- References: <1992Sep4.172303.2572@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Sep4.173115.3743@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Sep8.045156.6935@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:53:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.045156.6935@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
- >In my opinion, the core of the C.S. discipline is concerned with
- >speeding up computers. There are at least 5 different levels at which
- > ...
- >The alternate core of C.S. is concerned with making computers easier
- >to use. This covers everything user interface to language design to
- > ..
- >Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- >
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- I think CS is concerned with other things as well that have nothing
- whatsoever to do with making "computers" (deus ex Machina ex machina)
- run faster or be easier to program. Where did these magic "computers"
- come from? That's like looking at "computers" in 1952 and saying
- CS's are only interested in making arithmetic faster. Then we got
- word processors, and image processors, and multimedia, and collaboration
- software, and AI and distributed cognition systems for information fusion...
-
- Where did those come from? And what's next? What about artificial
- life? Robtotics that surprises even Asimov.
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- What's the structure of reasoning and what systems can do it.
- What's the structure of WISDOM, and why are humans so bad at it.
- What's the best hybrid planet you can design with humans and "computers"
- and networks and the 8 things we haven't even dreamed of yet helping?
-
- "programming"? Bah. That's like saying Mathematicians are "adders".
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- IMHO (:-) Wade
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