Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating algorithms -- for example, through computers.

Description

Computing includes:

• Designing, developing and building hardware and software systems.
• Processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information.
• Doing scientific research on and with computers
• Making computer systems behave intelligently
• Creating and using communications and entertainment media.

The field of computing includes:

• Computer engineering
• Software engineering
• Computer science
• Information systems
• Information technology

See also

• Algorithm
• Computer
• Computer programming
• Computer science
• Information processing
• Legacy system
• Plain text
• Sequence

Exterior links

• Computing @ Wikipedia