On Computing: The Fourth Great Scientific Domain by Paul S. Rosenbloom (PDF)

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A proposal that computing is not merely a form of engineering but a scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences.Computing is not simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom proposes that computing is a great scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences. Rosenbloom introduces a relational approach for understanding computing, conceptualizing it in terms of forms of interaction and implementation, to reveal the hidden structures and connections among its disciplines. He argues for the continuing vitality of computing, surveying the leading edge in computing’s combination with other domains, from biocomputing and brain-computer interfaces to crowdsourcing and virtual humans to robots and the intermingling of the real and the virtual. He explores forms of higher order coherence, or macrostructures, over complex computing topics and organizations. Finally, he examines the very notion of a great scientific domain in philosophical terms, honing his argument that computing should be considered the fourth great scientific domain.With On Computing, Rosenbloom, a key architect of the founding of University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies and former Deputy Director of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, offers a broader perspective on what computing is and what it can become.

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⭐This is an excellent treatise. A must read.

⭐The book attempts to provide a “roadmap” through computing, what it is at its core as well as how it dialogues with other fields, as we are seeing today and as things will emerge in the future. A strong and bold proposal, yet, I think, not unreasonable.

⭐Book arrived perfectly.

⭐An excellent review of what makes “Computer Science” a science and how it relates to other sciences. I wish there were a shorter book on “The Scientific Domains” to more broadly introduce the meta-science concepts in this book.

⭐Very Controversial!**** 4 asterisks!What you think of it?

⭐Rosenbloom has every freshman at the University of Southern California read this book for his class, CSCI 109. It has no applications outside of the class, but he makes bank because so many students have to get it. Stop this man.

⭐Stanford became a good computing school because of the problems which were incurred in mechanical engineering and material science. It is the need for the high performance simulation that paved path for some of the techniques.Now a days everything is science. No wonder some body comes with fifth great scientific domainComputing is a technique!

⭐I was very excited to read this book. The concept that computing is a fourth scientific domain has such a powerful common sense appeal to me. I think the author is generally right in this idea. However, I felt largely disappointed, in that the attempt to get at this ‘big idea’ somehow wasn’t really successful. Perhaps, it is because the author was too immersed in computing and also did not have the necessary philosophical background (which he admits – and to be fair would be a major undertaking) to write about it on a firmer conceptual level. What it becomes is an attempt to roughly translate the idea as a computational structure rather than outlining the domain as a perceptual and organizing paradigm. I highly appreciate the effort and the idea is right – but in the end I was left wanting, something more. Worth the read and certainly worth the consideration.

⭐No livro, o autor trata do tema “Computação” de forma profunda.É uma abordagem filosófica, sem perder a precisão.Propõe que a Computação esteja na mesma hierarquia que os outros três domínios consagrados da ciência.

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