From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Feb 13 11:37:47 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 l1DGblHt011119 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:37:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from front3.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l1DGbfqj013400 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:37:41 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 13408 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2007 16:37:41 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Feb 2007 16:37:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 28801 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2007 16:37:41 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Feb 2007 16:37:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 22856 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2007 16:37:31 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Feb 2007 16:37:31 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3297182 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:37:31 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 22562 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2007 16:37:31 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Feb 2007 16:37:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 9852 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2007 16:37:30 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Feb 2007 16:37:30 -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 l1DGbT2T011097 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:37:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l1DGbT35011096 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:37:29 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702131637.l1DGbT35011096@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:37:29 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: WHAT IS COMPUTER SCIENCE? 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 1029; 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 0.88.6/2562/Tue Feb 13 10:18:56 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 687 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: WHAT IS COMPUTER SCIENCE? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've updated the What Is CS? webpage to include a link to Elon University's Dept. of Computing Sciences (note the name!) discussion of what CS is. I think you'll find it interesting reading: Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/S07/whatiscs.html#elon or directly to: http://tinyurl.com/yvwb2r Thanks to Bill Duncan for the pointer. (BTW: "tinyurl.com" is a website that takes URLs that are too long to fit on one line and encodes them into "tiny" URLs that redirect to the longer one.)