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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: Create sci.compression?
Keywords: Data Compression, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.215838.6081@rand.org>
Date: 12 Feb 91 21:58:38 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.161231.16798@cs.fau.edu> ERTEM@ACC.FAU.EDU writes:
>In article <1991Feb11.004336.26106@rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
>   [stuff deleted...]
>>Data compression is meaningless outside of a computer context; it is
>>arguably as much a part of computer science as compiler writing or
>>microprocessor design.  
>
>. . . . However, digital communications
>is not part of computer science. I also have doubts about microprocessor design
>being only a CS area too.
>
>M. C. Ertem
>Electrical Engineering Dept.  <---- Where else would you expect anyway?

*Sigh*  Mathematicians think CS is engineering, while engineers think
it is mathematics.  The truth is, both paradigms apply.  CS was still
cross-disciplinary, last time I checked...

My mistake was saying ``a computer context'' rather than ``the context
of computing.''

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org