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'''Computer science''' is the scientific and practical approach to [[Computing|computation]] and its applications.

See [[Outline of computer science]] for an introduction to key topics.

== Description ==
Computer science is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or [[Algorithm|algorithms]]) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to [[information]]

[[Information]] may be encoded in a wide range of media:

* [[Bit|Bits]] in [[computer memory]]
* [[Gene|Genes]] and [[Protein structure|protein structures]] in a [[biological cell]]
* Etc.

== Automated algorithms that scale ==

An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of [[Automated algorithmic process|automating algorithmic processes]] that [[Scalability|scale]].

== Computer scientist ==

A [[computer scientist]] specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

== See also ==

* [[Abstract data type]]
* [[Abstract machine]]
* [[Abstraction (computer science)]]
* [[Abstract syntax]]
* [[Abstract syntax tree]]
* [[Advice (complexity)]]
* [[Advice (programming)]]
* [[Ajax (programming)]]
* [[Artificial neural network]]
* [[Backus–Naur Form]]
* [[Bit]]
* [[Canonical form]]
* [[Chaos theory]]
* [[Character (computing)]]
* [[Checksum]]
* [[Computation]]
* [[Computer]]
* [[Computer program]]
* [[Computer programming]]
* [[Computing]]
* [[Constant (computer programming)]]
* [[Control flow]]
* [[Data (computing)]]
* [[Database]]
* [[Database normalization]]
* [[Data structure]]
* [[Data type]]
* [[Data validation]]
* [[Distributed computing]]
* [[Edsger Wybe Dijkstra|Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe]]
* [[Document classification]]
* [[Expression (computer science)]]
* [[Expression (mathematics)]]
* [[Finite-state machine]]
* [[Frame problem]]
* [[Graph theory]]
* [[Idempotence]]
* [[Identifier]]
* [[Information]]
* [[Information architecture]]
* [[Information theory]]
* [[Input (computing)]]
* [[Intermediate language]]
* [[Lambda calculus]]
* [[Lazy evaluation]]
* [[Lexical analysis]]
* [[Linked list]]
* [[Lint (software)]]
* [[localhost]]
* [[Local variable]]
* [[Logic in computer science]]
* [[Logic programming]]
* [[Login session]]
* [[Modeling language]]
* [[Model-view-controller]]
* [[Non-deterministic Turing machine]]
* [[Non-strict programming language]]
* [[Normal form (abstract rewriting)]]
* [[NP-completeness]]
* [[Outline of computer science]]
* [[Parallel computation with molecular-motor-propelled agents in nanofabricated networks]]
* [[Parsing]]
* [[Power of two]]
* [[Probabilistic Turing machine]]
* [[Programming language]]
* [[Programming language theory]]
* [[Random access]]
* [[Recursion]]
* [[Recursive definition]]
* [[Relational database]]
* [[Remote procedure call]]
* [[Rewriting]]
* [[Round-off error]]
* [[Scalability]]
* [[Sequence]]
* [[Session (computer science)]]
* [[Software engineering]]
* [[State (computer science)]]
* [[Stateless protocol]]
* [[Statement (computer science)]]
* [[Strict programming language]]
* [[Turing completeness]]
* [[Turing machine]]
* [[Universal Turing machine]]
* [[Value (computer science)]]
* [[Van Wijngaarden grammar]]
* [[Vulnerability (computing)]]
* [[Zero-based numbering]]

== External links == 

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science Computer science] @ Wikipedia

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