dml@NADC.ARPA (D. Loewenstern) (09/17/87)
>From: kodak!elmgate!ram@cs.rochester.edu (Randy Martens) >I am of the firm opinion that there is NO such thing as >computer science. To quote (and I have forgotten the attribution) >"Computer Science bears the same relationship to Real Science, that >plumbing bears to Hydrodynamics." >There is, however, Computer Engineering. (and Software Engineering, >and Systems Engineering etc.). Science is the discovery of the new. >Engineering takes what the scientists have found, and finds ways >to do useful things with it. The two are like Yin and Yang, closely >interrelated, but not the same, and each dependant on the other. I think that what Mr. Martens has said is: 1. a. Science is the discovery of the new. b. There is no such thing as computer science. => There is no discovery of the new in the realm of computers. 2. a. Engineering takes what the scientists have found... => Computer Engineering takes what the Computer Scientists have found... b. There is no such thing as computer science. => There are no computer scientists. => Nothing has been found by computer scientists. => Computer Engineering takes nothing and finds ways to do useful things with it. (8v)) David Loewenstern Naval Air Development Center code 7013 Warminster, PA 18974-5000 <dml@nadc.arpa>