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From: ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Computer Science: where it belongs
Message-ID: <469@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 22:50:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 22:50:44 1987
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Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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     Computer Science is sometimes viewed as a branch of engineering and 
sometimes as a branch of mathematics, and sometimes as a type of science.
Why not view computer science as a performing art such as painting or music 
which has two main parts:  performance ( e.g., software engineering), and 
theory ( study of the phenomena underlying software engineering - why they 
work and how they can be improved).  Perhaps Computer Science programs should
be placed within Collges of Art.  That would certainly assist with such issues
as tenure, or what a B.S. student in the discipline should know.
    For tenure, we could then have ample precedents for crediting development
of new software ( composition).