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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: CS education
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.191902.17266@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 89 19:19:02 GMT
References: <549@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
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From article <549@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>, by ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers):
> 
> a surgeon is an engineer (applying known techniques) most of the time.
> a surgeon developing new operating techniques is in my opinion doing
>   scientific work.
> ...
> Computer science/engineering is not the only field that does not have
> two types of education, one for engineering, and one for science.

But is a surgeon the same as a medical researcher the same as your
family doctor?  Their educations must overlap but they also must branch
out at some point.  How else do you explain all those different doctor
initials at the end of their names.
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Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
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