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From: jsnyder@uw-june.UUCP (Hei Yu)
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Subject: Re: Is Computer Science Science?
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 23:41:06 EDT
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In article <2835@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes:
>
>W. Daniel Hillis The Connection Machine, MIT Press, 1986,
>Last Chapter entitled something like "Why Computer Science is No Good"
>Says CS lacks scale, symmetry, and locality of effect.

As I recall, Ehud Shapiro's dissertation "Automatic Debugging" (MIT Press)
included some similar kind of grousing about CS having a "flat" structure
with lots of incomparable elements.  

jsnyder@june.cs.washington.edu.arpa         John R. Snyder
{ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!uw-beaver!jsnyder     Dept. of Computer Science, FR-35
                                            University of Washington
206/543-7798                                Seattle, WA 98195