From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Apr 6 21:23:39 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 l371NdVn008838 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:23:39 -0400 (EDT) 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 l371NYPu083735 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:23:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 27539 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2007 01:23:34 -0000 Received: from mailscan8.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.55) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 7 Apr 2007 01:23:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 27522 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2007 01:23:33 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 7 Apr 2007 01:23:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 13708 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2007 01:23:11 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 7 Apr 2007 01:23:11 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4450770 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:23:11 -0400 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 6817 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2007 01:22:35 -0000 Received: from mailscan7.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.158) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 7 Apr 2007 01:22:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 12253 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2007 01:22:35 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 7 Apr 2007 01:22:35 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l371MYgR008755; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:22:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l371MYWk008754; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:22:34 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200704070122.l371MYWk008754@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:22:34 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: WHAT IS COMPUTER SCIENCE Comments: cc: shapiro@cse.Buffalo.EDU To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1335; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/3030/Fri Apr 6 14:44:59 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 579 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: WHAT IS COMPUTER SCIENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You may recall that when we investigated this question, I mentioned the historical example of microscopy as an academic discipline (centered around a tool) that no longer exists on its own. http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/S07/whatiscs.html#microscopy Here's another example: Ornes, Stephen (2007), "Whatever Happened to...Chaos Theory?", Discover (April): 16. http://tinyurl.com/342ltp