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If I construct highways, I may use special highway-relevant skills. But does that make me a “highway scientist”? Not so.
In Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, login required), Peter Denning, former president of the ACM, argues for and against computer “science” in an article titled “Is israel whatsapp number data Computer Science Science? Computer science meets every criterion for being a science, but it has a self-inflicted credibility problem,” 2005, as he concludes:
“Validate Computer Science Claims
There you have us. We have allowed the hype of advertising departments to infiltrate our laboratories. In a sample of 400 computer science papers published before 1995, Walter Tichy found that approximately 50% of those proposing models or hypotheses did not test them [12]. In other fields of science the fraction of papers with untested hypotheses was about 10%. Tichy concluded that our failure to test more allowed many unsound ideas to be tried in practice and lowered the credibility of our field as a science. …
The perception of our field seems to be a generational issue. with one of the three roots of the field—science, engineering, or mathematics. The science paradigm is largely invisible within the other two groups.
In Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, login required), Peter Denning, former president of the ACM, argues for and against computer “science” in an article titled “Is israel whatsapp number data Computer Science Science? Computer science meets every criterion for being a science, but it has a self-inflicted credibility problem,” 2005, as he concludes:
“Validate Computer Science Claims
There you have us. We have allowed the hype of advertising departments to infiltrate our laboratories. In a sample of 400 computer science papers published before 1995, Walter Tichy found that approximately 50% of those proposing models or hypotheses did not test them [12]. In other fields of science the fraction of papers with untested hypotheses was about 10%. Tichy concluded that our failure to test more allowed many unsound ideas to be tried in practice and lowered the credibility of our field as a science. …
The perception of our field seems to be a generational issue. with one of the three roots of the field—science, engineering, or mathematics. The science paradigm is largely invisible within the other two groups.