{"id":1544,"date":"2007-06-06T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T00:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2007-06-06T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T00:11:33","slug":"computer-science-is-it-really-about-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/06\/06\/computer-science-is-it-really-about-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science.  Is it Really About Computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Bruce Sterling&#8217;s Wired blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2007\/06\/computer_scienc\/\">Computer Science. Is it Really a Science, and What&#8217;s It a Science About?<\/a> with a link to The Great Principles of Computing.  Debating whether computer science is science is sure to <del datetime=\"2007-06-07T14:38:58+00:00\">illicit<\/del> elicit forth great gobs of passioned points and counterpoints.  This will be followed, of course, by ad hominen attacks relating to the fundamental status of a particular discipline.  Finally the whole thing will terminate with everyone going home in a big tizzy.<br \/>\nMe, however, I&#8217;ve been spending too much time in computer science theory land so I&#8217;m not worried about whether computer science is a science.  Me, I&#8217;m more worried about whether computer science is really about computers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bruce Sterling&#8217;s Wired blog: Computer Science. Is it Really a Science, and What&#8217;s It a Science About? with a link to The Great Principles of Computing. Debating whether computer science is science is sure to illicit elicit forth great gobs of passioned points and counterpoints. This will be followed, of course, by ad hominen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/06\/06\/computer-science-is-it-really-about-computers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computer Science.  Is it Really About Computers?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}