{"id":772,"date":"2006-10-31T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/31\/if-it-has-science-in-the-name\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T09:07:05","slug":"if-it-has-science-in-the-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/31\/if-it-has-science-in-the-name\/","title":{"rendered":"If It Has “Science” in the Name, It’s Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Times<\/cite> this morning has an article on the future of computer science<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Computer science is not only a comparatively young field, but also one that has had to prove it is really science. Skeptics in academia would often say that after Alan Turing described the concept of the “universal machine” in the late 1930’s — the idea that a computer in theory could be made to do the work of any kind of calculating machine, including the human brain — all that remained to be done was mere engineering.<\/p>\n

The more generous perspective today is that decades of stunningly rapid advances in processing speed, storage and networking, along with the development of increasingly clever software, have brought computing into science, business and culture in ways that were barely imagined years ago. The quantitative changes delivered through smart engineering opened the door to qualitative changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t really have anything to add to this, but it talks about some interesting projects. Also, it gives me a chance to use this post title, which is a rule for determining what counts as a science that was proposed by a computer scientist I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Times this morning has an article on the future of computer science: Computer science is not only a comparatively young field, but also one that has had to prove it is really science. Skeptics in academia would often say that after Alan Turing described the concept of the “universal machine” in the late 1930’s… Continue reading If It Has “Science” in the Name, It’s Not<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}