Wikipedia: Computer science

Computer science is a new science; only in the last 20 years has it begun to develop the benchmarks of the more mature sciences.

Major subfields include

• Algorithms
• Algorithmic information theory
• Artificial intelligence
• Benchmark
• Compilers
• Complexity theory
• Computer architecture
• Computer graphics
• Computer networks
• Computer Security
• Computer Vision
• Databases
• Distributed computing
• Data compression
• Data structures
• Design patterns
• Digital signal processing
• Discrete mathematics
• File Formats
• History of computing
• Human-computer interaction
• Information security
• Information theory
• Internet
• Lexical Analysis
• Microprogramming
• Operating systems
• Optimization
• Programming languages
• Software engineering
• Theory of computation (or theoretical computer science)
• VLSI design

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• Computer jargon
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