>>13277401Adding onto this, discrete differential geometry (DDG) and graphics processing is the perfect PR piece for CS because:
1) it’s both analytic and combinatorial in an academic culture where analysis has prestige
2) it connects computation to popular topics in physics and math, pure and applied
3) it has very pretty pictures (more important than you think), picrel
4) it’s relatively new and shiny
5) it’s both heavy on theory and implementation
6) it shows off the value of CS by demonstrating the gap between making the electrical machinery (EE/CE) and making the abstract machinery (CS)
I like architecture, RAM design, and OS stuff a lot, and CS does come up in those areas, but CS needs to advertise popular, attractive subjects that are well known to be its “home domain” in order to build prestige. Same goes for its theory side. CS theory is cool as shit but all they show off is boring horseshit like mergesort. They don’t even do the most interesting sorting machinery like fusion trees
