[net.misc] CS as Science

dm (06/21/82)

Several people have remarked that CS is not really a science because
it deals with a computer, which is a known entity, and therefore CS
is not dealing with original discovery.  CS covers an awful lot of ground;
from Systems implementors, who really are creating another machine ontop
of the one the EE people made, to AI researchers who don't care very much
about machine OR system details, and in fact are only using the computer
as a tool to study the human mind. I think that this spread is similar to
that which used to exist in physics, before the more applied branches
of physics came into there own as the mechanical and electrical engineers.
					Dave
					(decvax!yale-comix!dm)