TITLE: Week of Science Challenge, Computer Science-Style
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: February 02, 2007  5:57 PM
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I don't consider myself a "science blogger", because to me
computer science is much more than just science.  But I do
think of Knowing and Doing as a place for me to write about
the intellectual elements of computer science and software
development, and there is a wonderful, intriguing, important
scientific discipline at the core of all that we do.  So
when I ran across the
<A HREF="http://scienceblogs.com/evolgen/2007/01/the_week_of_science_challenge.php">
   Week of Science Challenge</A>
in a variety of places, I considered playing along.  Doing
so would mean postponing a couple of topics I've been thinking
about writing about, and it would mean not writing about the
teaching side of what I do for the next few days.  Sometimes,
when I come out of class, that is all I want to do!  But
taking the challenge might also serve as a good way to motivate
myself to write on some "real" computer science issues for a
while again.  And that would force me to read and think about
this part of my world a bit more.  Given the hectic schedule
I face on and off campus in the next four weeks, that would
be a refreshing intellectual digression -- and a challenge
to my time management skills.

I have decided to pick up the gauntlet and take the challenge.
I don't think I can promise a post every day during February
5-11, or that my posts will be considered "science blogs" by
all of the natural scientists who consider computer science
and software development as technology or engineering disciplines.
But let's see where the challenge leads.  Watch for some real
CS here in the next week...
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