Computer Science Personal Statement

“We are predicting human behavior; we are predicting climates, seasons, ocean currents, etc.” Nand says.

• A number of computer scientists have argued for the distinction of three separate paradigms in computer science.

• Peter Wegner argued that those paradigms are science, technology, and mathematics. Peter Denning's working group argued that they are theory, abstraction (modeling), and design.

• Computer science is scaling—and scaling very fast for that matter, according to Nand. Applying computer science to prediction can have a huge impact on the world.