Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> > There may be a third... that is based on information science, and that
> > is what I've been considering, as another person said, on the
> > character of the data, like text, images, musical scores... (though
> > that description does not do justice to information science). I think
> > that qualifies, although it doesn't have the reputation of being as
> > rigorous as the curricula that are more founded in math.
>
> Information science deals more with the storing of language (full text
> search and retrieval) and is sort of an outgrowth of library science.
>
> MIS (another one omitted) is an outgrowth of business computing.
>
> So there's four major areas that reflect where they originally came from.
> My specialty personally is as a generalist as I've done all four areas. I
> tend to prefer less math however. :)
I'm almost completely math illiterate. So I tend to think of information
in linguistic terms. It's a big leap between textual data and
quantifying pure information at an atomic level. In computing,
I'm kind of an amateur linguist, which is why I like Perl, because
of the way it uses context to resolve linguistic ambiguity, the way
human language does. Sort of a "poor man's Larry Wall," I guess. :)
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