Re: Programming is the Engineering Discipline of the Science that is Mathematics
From: Keith H Duggar <duggar_at_alum.mit.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 2006 18:35:05 -0700
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Date: 5 Jun 2006 18:35:05 -0700
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A most profound statement that bears on this is Shannon's 1959 comment:
"[The duality between source and channel coding] can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it."
Science employs control to pursue of knowledge. Engineering employs knowledge to pursue of control.
- Keith --