Computer Science: the Discipline

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  • Peter J. Denning
چکیده

The computing profession is the people and institutions that have been created to take care of other people's concerns in information processing and coordination through worldwide communication systems. The profession contains various specialties such as computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, information systems, domain-specific applications, and computer systems. The discipline of computer science is the body of knowledge and practices used by computing professionals in their work. This article, with many cross-references to other articles in this encyclopedia, discusses these aspects of the profession and the relations among them.

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تاریخ انتشار 1999