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From: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson)
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Subject: What is comp.sci's role in computational science?
Message-ID: <10701@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 13:58:10 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Clemson is developing a Computational Sciences program. This program
has courses which are interdisciplinary in nature. While the engineering/
scientific content and the mathematical/numerical content are reasonably
easy to deal with, the computer science content is not. Computer science,
in this context, means software, languages, etc and not hardware.

I am trying to survey attitudes of scientific programmers, whether in
industry or in academia, on prevailing attitudes relative to how well
computer science helps---or hinders---the development of scientific and
engineering codes. These may relate to such things as langauges, software
development methods/tools, algorithms etc.

Please send any comments by e-mail. Flames welcome if they are clean :-)
and even better if they're funny. I would also be interested in horrid
examples and war stories.

steve

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Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson           steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science,            (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906