Computer Science (CS) Discipline
A Computer Science (CS) Discipline is a scientific discipline that analyzes the properties of computing systems (within a computing subject area).
- Context:
- It can involve:
- Computer Science Research Tasks, that can produce computational algorithms and propose new computational tasks.
- Computer Science Education, that can produce Computer Science Practitioners of the Computer Science Practice.
- Computer Science Academic Literature, such as Computing Science Journals and Computing Science Textbooks.
- It can propose Computer Science Concepts (possible within a computer science terminology).
- It can support the Theory of Fundamental Laws that govern all Algorithms.
- It can be supported by a Computer Science Research Community.
- It can range from being a Applied Computer Science to being a Theoretical Computer Science.
- It can be supported by a Mathematics Academic Discipline.
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- It can involve:
- Example(s):
- an AI Discipline.
- a Machine Learning Discipline.
- a Data Mining Discipline.
- an NLP Discipline.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Physics; Chemistry; Mathematics; Linguistics; ...
- See: Formal Science, Computer Science Student, Computer Science Expert, Computation, Procedure (Computer Science), Computational Complexity Theory.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science Retrieved:2015-6-17.
- Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.
Its subfields can be divided into a variety of theoretical and practical disciplines. Some fields, such as computational complexity theory (which explores the fundamental properties of computational and intractable problems), are highly abstract, while fields such as computer graphics emphasize real-world visual applications. Still other fields focus on the challenges in implementing computation. For example, programming language theory considers various approaches to the description of computation, while the study of computer programming itself investigates various aspects of the use of programming language and complex systems. Human–computer interaction considers the challenges in making computers and computations useful, usable, and universally accessible to humans.
- Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.