>>11037459>Network science?No, because the field isn't totally about """networks""" - you're thinking of applications in distributed computation
>How is it even a science? It's a lot closer being a subfield or sister field of mathematics - however, if you accept Turing Machines as a light ontology for feasibility or realizability, then it's a science because it studies computation as both a natural and formal phenomenon.
>Isn't it more of a social study?How the fuck does it have anything to do with "social study?" Do you think proving lower bounds for the complexity of graph isomorphism has anything to do with sociology or "social study?"
>What is the equation for "ima data-mine ye"?Well not you're just shitposting
Computer Science is a wide field that studies computation or entities involving computation. There is theory, concerned with the fundamental nature of what computation is in a mathematical / natural sense (complexity, recursion theory, time and space heirarchies, etc). There is systems, concerned with solving problems that have to do with designing a general computation system, such as scheduling, the illusion of infinite memory, caching, etc. There's stuff in applications that lies in the border, like machine learning, which uses analysis, numerical methods, and optimization theory to talk about rigorous approximations to decision problems, etc etc. Ultimately, each subfield has a rich history despite being so young.
