Συμφωνώ κι εγώ για τους ακαδημαϊκούς, από χτες το σκεφτόμουνα.
Νομίζω ότι αυτοί μπορούν να επιχειρηματολογήσουν υπέρ της πληροφορικής και λόγω της θέσης τους ίσως ακουστούν πιο εύκολα. Τα επιχειρήματα θα πρέπει να έχουν και παιδαγωγική προέκταση. Η πληροφορική είναι ένα μάθημα που έχει θέση στο γενικό λύκειο.
Αυτό που γράφει ο pgrontas στην υπογραφή του είναι πολύ σημαντικό "computer science is the new math" και νομίζω ότι έχουμε επιχειρήματα για να το στηρίξουμε.
Παράθεση από :
http://www.chiefmartec.com/2008/03/marketing-and-c.htmlPoint #1. I had the privilege to hear a talk from Christos Papadimitriou at MIT last month. (For those of you without a computer science background, Papadimitriou is a legend — sort of what Brett Favre is to football — and one of the masters of computational complexity.)
The theme of his talk was "computer science is the new math". By this he meant that computer science is no longer just a stand-alone branch of science so much as it is now a tool that is adopted by all the sciences. He gave examples from physics, biology, and social science, where the algorithmic lens of computer science has enabled incredible breakthroughs in the past several years.
With the Internet in particular, computer science is now intertwined with the social sciences, understanding how people behave online, individually and in groups. And this is where computer science and marketing collide. Social networking dynamics — which are of critical concern to marketers — are the living incarnation of graph theory problems in computer science. Improving the effectiveness of advertising by leveraging people's patterns and preferences is a challenge for optimization algorithms.
Computational problems in marketing are sounding more and more like theoretical computer science dissertations.