Roads to New Grand Challenges of Informatics (Extended Abstract)

摘要

Currently dominating perception of computer science has its origin in in a very cleverly written, and much influential, paper of Newel, Simon and Perlis, published in Science in 1967, that well captured the perception of the field at that time. The basic ideas presented in their paper were: " Whenever there are phenomena there can be a science dealing with these phenomena. Phenomena breed sciences. Since there are computers, there is computer science. The phenomena surrounding computers are varied, complex and rich." There are nowadays a variety of reasons why such a computer-centric view of the field should be seen as very obsolete, not broad and not deep enough, and actually damaging the development of the field. They will be discussed only briefly in this paper, for details see. Here are some of them.