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Computer Science -- Nationally viewed as central activity
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Congress thinks Computer Science is activities such as NSF Supercomputer Centers i.e. Computational Science
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Computer Scientists think of the field as less applied
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Computer Engineering -- Historically Mathematics and Electrical Engineering have spawned Computer Science programs -- if from electrical engineering, the field is sometimes called computer engineering
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Applied Mathematics is a very broad field in U.K. where equivalent to Theoretical Physics. In USA applied mathematics is roughly mathematics associated with fluid flow
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Field teachs areas such as Scientific Computing even though ignore many issues needed outside differential equation solution
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Computational Physics -- Practioners will be judged by their contribtion to physics and not directly by algorithms and software innovations.
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Similar remarks about Computational Aerospace, Chemistry etc.
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