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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by bashinator on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:27AM (#24458356)
Is some of this a failure to distinguish between software engineering and computer science? Some famous CS person quipped that "CS is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." That's fine for studying applied information theory and whatnot, but it seems like maybe the time has come for a formal bifurcation of the fields.
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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by sjy on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:38AM (#24459386)
Aren’t the fields already bifurcated? Software engineering degrees exist. The fact that many software engineers have a more theoretical degree in computer science isn’t that unusual; you see the same pattern with business and economics.
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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by Qwertious on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:42AM (#24458423)
Computer science needs renaming - like you said, computer science is not about computers, and it's obviously not about science either (it's closer to maths).
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