A session at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the AAAS
St. Louis, MO, February 17, 2006

Organized by: Andrew Bernat, Computing Research Association

With computing joining theory and experiment as a fundamental method of doing science, it is important for scientists to understand how fundamental computer science impacts progress in their disciplines. Advances in searching drive bio-informatics, advances in visualization enable large-scale data analysis, advances in sensor networks allow vital data collection, advances in automated theorem proving drive greatly increases the scope of mathematics; the list goes on and on. Without knowing where and how computer science has enabled their work, scientists are less able to understand where their greatest progress can be made. Additionally, because computing represents a new way of doing science, it is not always clear what science lies behind computer science. This session will present the computer science that enables the present and the computer science that needs creating to enable the future.

Andrew Bernat, Computing Research Association
The Computer Science Behind Your Science (90 KB PDF))

Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University
Why Computer Science Theory Matters (3.1 MB PDF))

Lydia E. Kavraki, Rice University
From Robots to Biomolecules: Computing Meets the Physical World (7.7 MB PDF)

J Strother Moore, University of Texas, Austin
Mechanical Reasoning Tools and the Augmentation of Human Thought (415 KB PDF)

Dan Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Scientific Computing: An Intellectual Lever for Discovery (2.3 MB PDF))

Peter Norvig, Google
Extracting Semantics from the Web (1.1 MB PDF)
 

Norvig, Kavraki, Moore, Reed, and Chazelle

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