Computer Science

Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Computer Science"

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

More most read this week tagged "computer science"...

Computer Science Books

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Introduction to the Theory of Computation

More computer science books...

Lists

Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler

Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin

Linear Algebra and Its Applications by Gilbert Strang

Real and Complex Analysis by Walter Rudin

Mathematics · Computer Science · Statistical Science · Machine Learning

143 books — 31 voters

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig

Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Gregor Kiczales

Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf

39 books — 3 voters

The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan

Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen

software-development

69 books — 90 voters

Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez

Product books by product people

9 books — 1 voter

Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz

Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition by Dave Thomas

Ruby

5 books — 2 voters

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

My Favorite Computer Science Books

27 books — 86 voters

Related Genres

Nonfiction
Science
Programming
Technical
Computers
Software
Coding

Algorithms
Programming Languages
Informatics
Computer Reference
Scieñce
Sciençe

Featured News & Interviews

Ten Years of Horror Hits to Read This October

Read »

Quotes Tagged “Computer Science”

“ The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. ”
― C.A.R. Hoare

32 likes

“ Biologists often diss the potential of machine, just like gadgeteers are oblivious to life. Life is a cosmic miracle, machines are a human one, and with added purpose, machines could be the mightiest defense of life. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

0 likes

More quotes...