How do computer scientists discover new things that computers can do? The current generation of non-quantum computers seems to be fundamentally the same as the ones back to the 90s. The biggest difference seems that they are just faster and have different methods of inputting/outputting information.
Do computer scientists just give instructions to computers with the most processing power available and see what it can do?
For example, before CSS, websites were pretty basic. Did computer scientists figure that there must be a way to animate text and then write code like CSS to make it happen?
In: Technology
Computer Science is a branch of mathematics, as opposed to experimental sciences.
They don’t “discover” new things, more than figure out ways to express certain math problems in ways computers can efficiently solve. (And “math” encompasses far more than just arithmetic.)
So, sure, the display and manipulation of text is one of those sets of math problems.
Latest Answers