From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sat Jan 27 12:45:27 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l0RHjRUn007309 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:45:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l0RHjORq088433 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:45:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 17709 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2007 17:45:24 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 27 Jan 2007 17:45:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 18065 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2007 17:45:24 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 27 Jan 2007 17:45:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 27194 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2007 17:45:17 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 27 Jan 2007 17:45:17 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 2930418 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:45:17 -0500 Delivered-To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Received: (qmail 24543 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2007 17:45:17 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 27 Jan 2007 17:45:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 6456 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2007 17:45:16 -0000 Received: from hadar.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.1) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 27 Jan 2007 17:45:16 -0000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (ag33@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l0RHjG9j014772 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:45:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from ag33@localhost) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l0RHjFtI014771; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:45:15 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UB-Relay: (hadar.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:45:15 -0500 Reply-To: Albert Goldfain Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: Albert Goldfain Subject: CS is "Computational Thinking" To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (hadar.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2493/Fri Jan 26 07:00:46 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 531 I found this quote on CMU's CS homepage: "By coining the term computational thinking, Jeannette Wing, Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon, encapsulated both the answer to the question, What is computer science? and a viewpoint on how computer science is revolutionizing not only all the sciences, but impacting every aspect of our lives in the 21st century." which linked to this nice (and short!) paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf you may want to read this, Albert