Why is it called Computer Science?

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Thompson@Cheap computer — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:45:05 GMT

Computer science is the science that has led us to the invention of innovative devices so you can see how important it is for us.

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re: Why is it called Computer Science?

david solomon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:55:55 GMT

I'd prefer to call it Computer studies from now on.....all of those comments up there are giving me a headache !

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re: Why is it called Computer Science?

alfarid — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:22:08 GMT

i think feynman does not know how to use modern pc. i just talked to him ;)

you know i have 17 different linux kernels on this box for testing purposes, and i dont hate windows. i dont like it but no hate.

overall i think it is impossible for MS to stay on top of software, because MS people are not in touch with reality, they have too much, although their stuff is not all that ;)

it is sort of like like a song:

when i'm sitting in a little room, i always have something to do.
when i'm in a bigger room, i'm wondering how i was doing all that stuff sitting in a little room.

dont know who's written it but it is true(my).
and this does not go to all people that work there, just the policy makers.
when you look at the photograph of MS people back in 3.1 times, they all look like a bunch of hippies, no kidding, remind me that folk on San Francisco linux conference. if you look at policy makers in MS right now, you will see a major difference from that time. and i suspect that change occured right on Windows 95 release. big money required bigger safety for that money, so they hired professional money savers. they should have went with OSS model for their business. i think they would be a lot further ahead, although might not have as much dough, which would be sucky for stakeholders.
i dont think that MS will fall down on its knees for awhile. most of the people dont want to reinstall their os. i suspect the common "progress moving" laziness.

i always wondered how a person already has windows installed can install another windows on the same HDD without installation that would wipe everything else from hard disk by default :) and there is no way around, cause no-one in MS thought that user might have more than one MS OS on the same HDD. i mean multiboot in Windows is none existing feature. oh yeah i forgot, it is a pseudo-multi-user-OS, so you dont need multiboot, XP will take care of everything real well ;)

i have not seen a production quality firewall in OSS that is as Fu%ked up as Windows firewall. it is comletely useless, and in a lot of times it is a pain in the a**. i cannot achieve even 10% satisfaction rate on that thing. can i have my $$ back for that software component. please come take the firewall back, cause i promise that i'd never use it. and take Windows Player and Active X with that, cause i'm tired of monitoring news for updates on what i have to disable that can break my windows workstation. oh, i dont want explorer either. so , next time Windows ships, just ship the OS(kernel) not all this half a**ed crap. If you are in OS business, just do the OS part 100% first, and then you can start adding 3D. otherwise you will stop diminishing marginal returns ;)

after all, i think MS might not be able to open source its code if it "borrowed" some code from OSS. cause oss guys will sue them.
BUT, peace :)

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

cblazek — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:58:05 GMT

wow... been reading Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham? Kinda funny that's a topic he starts the book off with. Of course, since you guys have an open source site going now (No visible open source code mind you that I've found, just a freaking blog about OS ideas!) you could at least give credit to a previously published topic. That is after all the idea of OS, giving credit back to the author, but building on the ideas from that author.

Like someone posted up above, I find it interesting you put "© Copyright 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved." at the bottom of your Open Source site.

Question, If I take an idea from this site, which lic does it fall under, some form or fashion of GNU/Creative Commons OR is all content Copyrighted?

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

WTF_Richard Feynman Probably used LINUX — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:54:47 GMT

Sam Ramji, Director of the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab and Richard Feynman fan discusses exploring the unknown aspects of Open Source.
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re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Jhonatan — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:09:27 GMT

Hi. I think no matter if it's a science or not. The important thing is the way we use it.Finally, the fact is whether it's useful for people or not.

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Arne Babenhauserheide — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:05:33 GMT

You can call it science, because it often produces results you never would have anticipated. And since Computers can surprise you, they are a science.

And Open Source is very good at offering surprises, because you never know how a given Program will be used in the long run, and you never know how people will use the programs you write.

And Programs can be used together to archieve means, none of the individual programmers would have thought before.

It might not be the science in our world, but it is the science in the Open Source and GPL world we create ourselves.

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Arne Babenhauserheide — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:05:02 GMT

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Gustavo Becerra — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:51:18 GMT

If you don't know why it is called computer science, then you are in the wrong field.

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Souvik — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:51:17 GMT

Computer Science is a misnomer. Science is knowledge (of Nature usually) gained by the scientific method. What we call core computer science might be best described as 'computational mathematics'.

I love that lecture when Feynman gets up on stage and says "There's no such thing as computer science.", and you can hear the audience roar! :-) Tough, but true!

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

anonymous — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:46:43 GMT

there are some formal definitions on computation (diriving a result) - could the solution to a problem be calculated at all, is the worst case a brute force strategie, what is the complexity of the problem (what order of number of instructions is needed) ...

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Dave Rehfield — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:35:14 GMT

It is well known that no field that has "Science" in its title is actually Science. Examples: Social Science, Creation Science, Computer Science, Political Science.
What can you expect from a language in which people drive on parkways and park on driveways....
Computer Science is actually a form of Engineering in which the principles of Physics are applied to computation and informatics. The Physics principles involve quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, crystalography, Digital Electronics, etc.

re: Why is it called Computer Science?

Greg Strockbine — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:53:47 GMT

I was just on the VMware site and they have machines that you can download. I couldn't find the open source version of windows XP though, can you provide me a link to it?
thank you,
Greg Strockbine