Re: Are there any non-gifted scientists?!?!?
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Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:47:42 +1000
Ban wrote:
> Belanger wrote:
>
>>Thomas Stegen <tstegen@cis.strath.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>*There is no such thing as computer science!
>>>
>>>That depends on how you define computer science.
>>
>>Let us define it as software engineering!
>
>
> This is not the whole story, there is something called DSP, where you do
> *not* develop any software, but invent algorithms or find a way to implement
> mathematical functions. Look up a book of Oppenheim/Schafer,
> Proakis/Manolakis etc. You will find books full of math, but no software,
> even if you use Matlab as a tool.
> So, DSP is part of computer science (and of course EE), uses math, does some
> programming (mainly in assembler), but the essence is to develop algorithms
> for signal processing. You call that software engineering?
I wouldn't say DSP is part of computer science rather the study of
computability (eg. Turing machines, halting problem, etc.), complexity
(eg. various complexity classes such as P, NP, BPP, etc), and coding
(eg. information theory) constitute the basic areas of computer science.
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