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computer science vs. computers

Posted Jul 25, 2007 1:54 UTC (Wed) by stevenj (guest, #421)
In reply to: Where have the universities gone? by bugmenotplease
Parent article: Where have the universities gone?

A friend of mine in CS likes to say that the part of computer science that is about computers isn't a science, and the part that is a science isn't about computers.

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Posted Jul 27, 2007 18:48 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest software scientist that ever lived, said: "Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes."

I agree, but we all know that a "computer science" undergraduate education is mainly intended, and implemented, as software engineering vocational training.