From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Jan 25 09:41:48 2007 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:41:48 -0500 (EST) for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:41:41 -0500 (EST) 09:41:27 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:41:01 -0500 (EST) cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:41:00 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:41:00 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: WHAT IS COMPUTER SCIENCE? To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2488/Thu Jan 25 04:57:17 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: WHAT IS COMPUTER SCIENCE? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There was a special issue of an ACM journal devoted to the question "What is computer science?". It took the form of the Turing Award lecture given by Juris Hartmanis, together with commentaries by a dozen or so computer scientists, followed by Hartmanis's reply. (A critical survey of the articles would make a good term paper :-) ACM Computing Surveys Volume 27 , Issue 1 ( March 1995 ) http://tinyurl.com/2ra8xy