The Computer and Information Sciences: A New Basic Discipline

Gorn, Saul

doi:10.1137/1005036

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“…Here it is relevant to mention S. Gorn [22] and especially G. Forsythe [21] who was much in line with Naur when emphasizing the importance of extracting and teaching the essence of computer science. Naur presented a survey of the central topics in a systematic course in computer science at the IFIP congress in 1968 [47], see Figure 3.…”

Section: Computer Science At University Levelmentioning

confidence: 97%

Datalogy — The copenhagen tradition of computer science

Sveinsdottir

Frøkjær

1988

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Abstract.Since the middle of the 1960s, computer science has been practised in Denmark under Peter NauFs term datalogy, the science of data processes. Starting at Regenecentralen and the University of Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Tradition of Computer Science has developed its own special characteristics by means of a close connection with applications and other fields of knowledge. The tradition is not least visible in the area of education. Comprehensive project activity is an integral part of the curriculum, thus presenting theory as an aspect of realistic solutions known primarily through actual experience. Peter Naur early recognized the particular educational challenges presented by computer science. His innovations have shown their quality and vitality also at other universities. There is a close connection between computer science training as it has been formed at Copenhagen University, and the view of computer science which has characterized Peter Naur's research. We illustrate how the study of programming and system development conceived as a human activity has been an all-pervasive theme in Naur's work. This approach has set the scene for central research issues in software development which today seem more topical than ever.CR categories: K.3, A0, DO.

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Section: Computer Science At University Levelmentioning

confidence: 97%

Datalogy — The copenhagen tradition of computer science

Sveinsdottir

Frøkjær

1988

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“…It is striking to revisit Gorn's (234) proposal from more than half a century ago for a discipline called "the computer and information sciences." That tripartite argument prescribed the intellectual focus (mechanical languages), characterized the boundaries by listing its adjacent disciplines (electrical engineering, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, and psychology), and strategized the politics of departmental startup (escape from a neighboring department fueled by demand for its service courses).…”

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What Is Robotics? Why Do We Need It and How Can We Get It?

Koditschek

2021

Annu. Rev. Control Robot. Auton. Syst.

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Robotics is an emerging synthetic science concerned with programming work. Robot technologies are quickly advancing beyond the insights of the existing science. More secure intellectual foundations will be required to achieve better, more reliable, and safer capabilities as their penetration into society deepens. Presently missing foundations include the identification of fundamental physical limits, the development of new dynamical systems theory, and the invention of physically grounded programming languages. The new discipline needs a departmental home in the universities, which it can justify both intellectually and by its capacity to attract new diverse populations inspired by the age-old human fascination with robots. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, Volume 4 is May 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…One author highlighted computing's use of procedural (action-oriented) knowledge instead of mathematics' declarative knowledge (Tseytin, 1981). Another insisted that while mathematicians might be interested in syntactical relations between symbols and their semantics, computing is inherently pragmatic because it aims for software that works (Gorn, 1963). Another argued that the concerns of mathematicians and computing people are fundamentally different .…”

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Computational Thinking: A Disciplinary Perspective

Denning¹,

Tedre²

2021

Informatics in Education

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Over its short disciplinary history, computing has seen a stunning number of descriptions of the field's characteristic ways of thinking and practicing, under a large number of different labels. One of the more recent variants, notably in the context of K-12 education, is "computational thinking", which became popular in the early 2000s, and which has given rise to many competing views of the essential character of CT. This article analyzes CT from the perspective of computing's disciplinary ways of thinking and practicing, as expressed in writings of computing's pioneers. The article describes six windows into CT from a computing perspective: its intellectual origins and justification, its aims, and the central concepts, techniques, and ways of thinking in CT that arise from those different origins. The article also presents a way of analyzing CT over different dimensions, such as in terms of breadth vs. depth, specialization vs. generalization, and in terms of skill progression from beginner to expert. Those different views have different aims, theoretical references, conceptual frameworks, and origin stories, and they justify their intellectual essence in different ways.

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The Computer and Information Sciences: A New Basic Discipline

Cited by 41 publications

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Datalogy — The copenhagen tradition of computer science

Datalogy — The copenhagen tradition of computer science

What Is Robotics? Why Do We Need It and How Can We Get It?

Computational Thinking: A Disciplinary Perspective

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