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'''Computer science''' is the scientific and practical approach to [[Computing|computation]] and its applications. | '''Computer science''' is the scientific and practical approach to [[Computing|computation]] and its applications. | ||
| − | It 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, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. | + | It 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]], whether such information is encoded as [[Bit|bits]] in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. |
An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that [[Scalability|scale]]. | An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that [[Scalability|scale]]. | ||
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| − | == External | + | == External links == |
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science Computer science] @ Wikipedia | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science Computer science] @ Wikipedia | ||
Revision as of 09:01, 5 June 2015
Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications.
It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell.
An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale.
A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.
See also
External links
- Computer science @ Wikipedia
