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From: rapaport@sunybcs (William J. Rapaport)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.philosophy.tech,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Is Computer Science Science?
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 12:53:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 12:53:54 1987
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A colleague of mine in a philosophy department recently asked me if
I could give him "some major causal laws, principles or regularities
that are special to Computer Science....  (Every science has its special
laws, so what are some for Computer Science?)"

I vaguely recall a recent discussion on one of the nets about this.  If so,
is there some way I could get a copy of it (hard or soft)?  If not,
would anyone like to take a stab at answering this?


				William J. Rapaport
				Assistant Professor

Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260

(716) 636-3193, 3180

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