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From: ram@elmgate.UUCP (Randy Martens)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Is Computer Science Science?
Message-ID: <737@elmgate.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 12:06:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 12:06:37 1987
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Reply-To: ram@elmgate.UUCP (Randy Martens)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: computers Science not bloody likely
Summary: probably not

I am of the firm opinion that there is NO such thing as
computer science.  To quote (and I have forgotten the attribution)
"Computer Science bears the same relationship to Real Science, that
plumbing bears to Hydrodynamics."

There is, however, Computer Engineering. (and Software Engineering,
and Systems Engineering etc.).  Science is the discovery of the new.
Engineering takes what the scientists have found, and finds ways
to do useful things with it.  The two are like Yin and Yang, closely
interrelated, but not the same, and each dependant on the other.

I am a computer engineer.

Randy Martens
"Reality - What a Concept !" - R.Williams