Peter Freeman, Effective Computer Science, ACM Computing Surveys 27(1), March 1995, 27-??
Let me suggest a path that I calle ffective computer science, consisting of a community of scholars with a strong intellectual core of computer science, coupled with emphasis areas that focus on interactions with other disciplines.
N.G. Stewart, Science and Computer Science, ACM Computing Surveys 27(1), March 1995, pp 39-41
Longer versions of this essay http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/vision/stewart/neil.html
John E Savage, Will Computer Sicence Become Irrelevant ACM Computing Surveys, 27(1), March 1995, pp 35-37
John Plaice, Computer Science is an Experimental Science ACM Computing Surveys, 27(1), March 1995, pp 33-34
Michael C Loui, Computer Science is a new Engineering Discipline ACM Computing Surveys 27(1), March 1995, pp 31-32
Jeffrey Ullman, The Role of Theory Today, ACM Computing Surveys, 27(1), March 1995, p43-44
Juris Hartmanis, Responses to the Essays "On Computational Complexity and the Nature of Computer Science", ACM Computing Surveys, 27(1), March 1995, pp59-61
W A Wulf, Are we scientists or engineers, ACM COmputing Surveys, 27(1), March 1995, p55-57
Frederick P Brooks, The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II, Communications of the ACM, 39(3), March 1996, pp 61-??
John Savage, Will computer science become irrelevant? ACM Computing Surveys, 27(1), March 1995
Hanno Wupper, Hans Meijer, A Taxonomy for Computing Science: 'To design is to invent a formally provable statement'
Abstact
We try to capture the essence of information technology and computing science, arguing that information technologists have the same principal goal as all technologists: to create machines with certain properties. To achieve this, they formalize the problem, i.e. abstract the properties into a specification and invent or develop a schema, i.e. an abstraction of the machines structure. Subsequently, it is their principal task to prove that the schema satisfies the specification. Computing scientists develop mathematical and physical means to support or even enable that task. From this, the principal research questions of computing science may be derived.
From this viewpoint, we try to propose a consistent set of notions together with a consistent terminology, which may clarify the relation of information technology and computing science to other scientific disciplines and also give rise to new ideas about computing science education.
Allen Newell, Herbert Simon, Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search, Communications of the ACM, March 1976, 19(3)