/prog/ - Rename Computer Science

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 17:39

I think we can all agree Computer Science has little to do with actual computers, aside from knowing that you're limited in what you can test by how much money you have to spend, but I digress.

What would you change the name of "Computer Science" to if you could?
(A friend and I came up with "Computational Analytics", but were disappointed because it didn't have the word "Science" in it, and it's actually not that creative.)

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 17:47

Applied Discrete Mathematics (which was my suggestion LAST TIME WE HAD THIS SHITTY THREAD)

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 17:52

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THE LAST DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 17:52

>>3
wasn't that long ago

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 18:23

Anus Haxalogy

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Sheep Fondling

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 18:52

>>2
Good thing you keep contributing.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 18:57

>>2
I'd like to take issue with that. While a lot of computer science and programming involves math and truly it is a fundamental component, there is also a great deal of it so far removed from anything greater than basic incremental counting for indices. Telling people it's math when most of it looks nothing like math can be unintentionally misleading (at the very best, set theory is the most obvious).

What about Abstract Simulation Logos (lit. "Abstract Simulation λόγος" with its field of study symbol being a λ).

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 19:54

I don't like the science part.
Not a lot of fields use this in their name. It sounds insecure, having to justify what we do is science.
In general it's a bad name because we have failed in describing what it is we do.
It's like referring to astronomy as telescope science

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 20:31

>>9
Now I'm going to have to amend my resume and put down that I am a trained "telescope scientist" with a degree in advanced telescopography.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 20:45

Wizardry

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 21:02

>>11
Agreed. Since, first of all, it's not a Science.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 21:10

>>8
Most math doesn't look anything like what ~~morons like you~~ the general public thinks of as math.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 22:07

Computronomy.

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I LISTEN TO INFECTED MUSHROOM WHILE I CODE IN JAVA BECAUSE I'M LEET

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-09 23:19

Compology

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Excretology

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-10 1:40

The Art of Applied Algorithms

Name: sage 2010-07-10 5:54

>>11
MAGIC

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-10 6:13

Electronic wizardry? Doesnt sound good enough. It should sound very complex and very confusing, like ... applied elctronic ... numerical analasys ... fuck it.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-10 6:14

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*electronic

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-10 6:16

Conjuration.

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caffeinated hijinks

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Beginner-level Mathematics.

Name: VIPPER 2010-07-10 8:24

JEWS

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-10 13:45

Its all just instructions. Instructonomy

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-10 13:49

Informatics

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-10 14:56

Beaver Juggling

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 4:28

>>27
this, in germany computer science is "Informatik"

http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&from=fx3&search=informatik

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http://tinychat.com/8t8cw

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 5:19

>>29
Not to mention all of the former Soviet Union, France and large parts of Europe

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 6:50

>>29,31
There's a move in most of those countries to have Informatics apply specifically to ICT now, and to use the equivalent of Computer Science for Computer Science. My university offers an Informatica program, but the department that offers it is called Computerwetenschappen.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 8:27

Copypasteology

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 10:57

Computer Engineering.
Science is for homos.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 12:45

>>32
Ehlo Zarn

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 13:48

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Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 18:57

The problem with most of these suggestions is that they're already the names of many sub fields of computer science. I agree, after thinking about it, that having Science in the name is at best redundant. A name that stresses the use and development of algorithmic processes to do things to information would be best.

Algorithmic Infomathematology.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 21:49

Scalable dickanii

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TURNKEYOLOGY

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-11 23:04

I think we just go the way of the sussman and call it Wizardry.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-12 2:51

Computer Science should be renamed to
The Path To Satori/

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Theoretical Programming

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-12 5:07

Frozen Voidism

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-12 6:41

Computer Studies
Mathematics (algorithms emphasis)
Program Writing

Rename Computer Science

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