[SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: IHPST NEWSLETTER: November 28, 2014

[Matti Tedre]

Dear list members,

Paul Fishwick had a response to the riddle of computing's scientific 
nature; here's another shot at the same question:

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781482217698

Fresh from press - still warm.  But it's not a history book.  It's not a 
philosophy book either.  I don't know what kind of book it is, but it 
was fun to write.



Matti Tedre

Fishwick, Paul wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk<mailto:willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>> wrote:
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> Dear all (from the sidelines),
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> I agree that the history and philosophy of computing belong in close proximity to each other, that both are rich and important fields -- and I'd like to see the usually far too utilitarian digital humanities (at the intersection of computing and the humanities) brought into the discussion. It's the intersecting that makes it valuable here. I particularly like Mike Mahoney's comment that the question "is computer science a science" is actually two questions: "what happens to computing if you call it a science?" and "what do you mean by 'science' if computing is one?”
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> This is one response to these two questions:
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> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2601381.2601391
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> Yours,
> WM
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> Paul Fishwick, PhD
> Chair, ACM SIGSIM
> Distinguished University Chair of Arts & Technology
>    and Professor of Computer Science
> Director, Creative Automata Laboratory
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> Arts & Technology
> 800 West Campbell Road, AT10
> Richardson, TX 75080-3021
> Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick<http://utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick>
> Blog: creative-automata.com<http://creative-automata.com>
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