Will Computer JOHN Department Science Become Irrelevant? E, SAVAGE of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island ( jes@cs.brown.edu) Computer science has been extraordinarily successful. Fifty years first electronic computer, an unreliable and crudely programmable emerged computer remarkable field has many computer from a research laboratory almost at the University every home, car, of Pennsylvania. and business. technology is that, a future. science. is in despite Knowing without This is ago the device, Today What is the by for its success, some are now that computers are being degrees an issue in the that field, should they asking whether used effectively the need every practitioners question concern computer scientist. My purpose is to address the relevance of computer science by augmenting Juris Hartmanisâs description of the field, giving concrete examples of the impact pate in science. of theory the on practice, of the and encouraging challenging to devote computer more scientists in effort to particiand theory the and our we solution problems arising business I also encourage theoreticians science to applied of computation. The importance of computer is highlighted by two observations: are hard, computer scientist is needed when the number of hard computational Anyone fast but who
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Will computer science become irrelevant?
Savage, John E.
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, Volume 27 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 1995
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