pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke) (01/05/90)
In article <5912@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >It seems that the various specialities in computer science do not >communicate with one another. Whereas some fields are just >discovering uses for computer graphics, computer graphics could >learn to use a few things from other computer science specialities. >One of the most distinguished (and oldest PhDs) in CS, E. Dijsktra >just had a special article published in the most recent CACM on >teaching CS. In it he comes down hard on the topic of "Visualization." >He drops a particular attack on algorithm animation. I don't want to get into a flame war about Dijkstra in general, but I am not going to lose too much sleep over what he said about visualization. He was talking about a certain educational application which was labeled with that term. He gave no indication that he spent more energy than required by a sneer finding out about visualization in general. As he is such a hard-line bottom-upper, he would perhaps disapprove anyway, and he might even have valid points, but his comments in CACM about visualization do not have enough semantic content to speak about. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.