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Int J Software Informatics, Volume 5, Issue 4 (2011), pp. 549–565
International Journal of Software and Informatics, ISSN 1673-7288
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The Future of Computer Science
John E. Hopcroft, Sucheta Soundarajan, and Liaoruo Wang
(Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA)
Abstract Computer science is undergoing a fundamental change and is reshaping our understanding of the world. An important aspect of this change is the theory and applications
dealing with the gathering and analyzing of large real-world data sets. In this paper, we
introduce four research projects in which processing and interpreting large data sets is a central focus. Innovative ways of analyzing such data sets allow us to extract useful information
that we would never have obtained from small or synthetic data sets, thus providing us with
new insights into the real world.
Key words:
data
modern computer science; social networks; large data sets; high-dimensional
Hopcroft JE, Soundarajan S, Wang L. The future of computer science. Int J Software
Informatics, Vol.5, No.4 (2011): 549–565. http://www.ijsi.org/1673-7288/5/i110.htm
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Introduction
Modern computer science is undergoing a fundamental change. In the early years
of the field, computer scientists were primarily concerned with the size, efficiency
and reliability of computers. They attempted to increase the computational speed
as well as reduce the physical size of computers, to make them more practical and
useful. The research mainly dealt with hardware, programming languages, compilers,
operating systems and data bases. Meanwhile, theoretical computer science developed
an underlying mathematical foundation to support this research which in turn, led
to the creation of automata theory, formal languages, computability and algorithm
analysis. Through the efforts of these researchers, computers have shrunk from...