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Sandra Porter I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Geospiza Education).

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    « It's bad enough to throw your data away | Main | Whatever happened to Bill Nye the Science Guy? »

    What do computer scientists do anway? Inquiring minds want to know.

    Category: Science education
    Posted on: March 29, 2008 11:10 AM, by Sandra Porter

    Our new Scibling, Jane, is a real life computer scientist. If you've ever wondered what computer scientists really do during the day, Jane will set you straight (I guess they're not playing Nintendo. Darn! Another illusion shattered, just like that.)

    Jane has also promised to explain why computer science is a science and not engineering.

    That part hasn't happened yet, but I work with software engineers and I have written a bit about the mysterious things that they do. Databases need to vacuumed? Who knew?

    I'm looking forward to hearing Jane describe answer the question from the other side.

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