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New Reader Poll: Computer Science?

By vhughes on March 31, 2008.

This week, Jane of See Jane Compute considered the question: Is computer science really a science? She wrote:

The more I thought about it, the more I realized how complex this question really is...Computer science is in many respects a tool. It's a discipline that has its reach into many other disciplines. And that's one of the coolest, most interesting things about it. But that's also what makes it so hard to classify, to quantify.

Jane's further tackling the question in a series of posts. And we thought it would be a great question for this week's reader poll...so please weigh in!



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