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Ask HN: What are lesser known / taught subfields of Computer Science?
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Re: Ask HN: What are lesser known / taught subfields of Computer Science?
#2Program verification. How to design and implement correct programs.
Re: Ask HN: What are lesser known / taught subfields of Computer Science?
#3Stenography comes to mind. It seems it just gets mentioned in cryptography classes. Not sure that's very useful though.
I think machine learning is not taught enough relative to it's growing demand.
COBOL is a language that is still used in many places and will need people to replace those who are retiring, so I feel that is lesser known and not taught in many places.
Re: Ask HN: What are lesser known / taught subfields of Computer Science?
#4Some I can think of:
- Automata theory
- Complexity theory (P vs NP stuff, not the one from leetcode problems)
- Verification
- Optimization using stuff like genetic algorithms, ant-colony algorithms, particle swarm, simulated annealing, etc. Not sure how to call that area. In my case it was an AI course.
- Fuzzy logic
- Scientific computing and Numerical analysis (CFD, finite elements, etc)
- Information theory
Re: Ask HN: What are lesser known / taught subfields of Computer Science?
#5Some I can think of: - Automata theory - Complexity theory (P vs NP stuff, not the one from leetcode problems) - Verification - Optimization using stuff like genetic algorithms, ant-colony algorithms, particle swarm, simulated annealing, etc. Not sure how to call that area. In my case it was an AI course. - Fuzzy logic - Scientific computing and Numerical analysis (CFD, finite elements, etc) - Information theory
> - Scientific computing and Numerical analysis (CFD, finite elements, etc)
Yes please, if we could have more software engineers working on mechanical/aeronautical/civil/ engineering tools that would be great.
Currently the state of the art takes a long time to get out of PHDs and into industry, and when it does it is in the hands of a few companies that sell expensive software licenses.
The likes of at Ansys, Siemens (NX), CD-adapco,
You can access FOSS tools like open-foam but the average engineer doesn't have the skillset to also wrangle the tool as well as their domain problem.
An area I was always fascinated with but never had chance to dig into it was topology optimization to generate structures (or flow paths) to accomodate some given boundaries and physics.
Re: Ask HN: What are lesser known / taught subfields of Computer Science?
#6Some I can think of: - Automata theory - Complexity theory (P vs NP stuff, not the one from leetcode problems) - Verification - Optimization using stuff like genetic algorithms, ant-colony algorithms, particle swarm, simulated annealing, etc. Not sure how to call that area. In my case it was an AI course. - Fuzzy logic - Scientific computing and Numerical analysis (CFD, finite elements, etc) - Information theory
> - Scientific computing and Numerical analysis (CFD, finite elements, etc) Yes please, if we could have more software engineers working on mechanical/aeronautical/civil/ engineering tools that would be great. Currently the state of the art takes a long time to get out of PHDs and into industry, and when it does it is in the hands of a few companies that sell expensive software licenses. The likes of at Ansys, Siemen…
> Yes please, if we could have more software engineers working on mechanical/aeronautical/civil/ engineering tools that would be great.
That was my favorite subject in college and I wanted to pursue that area but sadly we didn't have any experts in the CS department. All of them were from the Mechanical Engineering department and they were extremely disconnected.