Is the computer science major too broad? Raven Jiang argues that it makes little sense to group such a diverse set in one single major. Topics like network design and statistics that have existed independently long before the digital age are being rebranded and subsumed under CS. Business analysts and sociologists are both calling themselves “data scientists” on LinkedIn and consumer service companies like Uber and Airbnb are branding themselves as technology companies simply because they use computers to solve problems, even though we do not consider farmers to be technologists simply because they employ automated machines or predictive weather models. stanforddaily/2015/01/11/computer-science-a-misnomer/
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:25:01 +0000
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