computer scientist

one who studies or practices computer science

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Occupation type: Academic
Competencies: Computer science and other formal sciences (e.g. mathematics , logic , statistics , information theory , systems science )
Education required: Doctorate
Fields of employment: Universities, private corporations, financial industry, government, military
Related jobs: Logician , mathematician

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Instance of: profession
Subclass of: scientist
Industry: service sector
Image: Alan Turing Memorial Closer.jpg
Patron saint: Isidore of Seville
Field of occupation: computer science

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male form of label: informatician
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Commons category: Computer scientists
topic's main category: Category:Computer scientists
female form of label: informatyczka
has list: list of computer scientists
ISCO-08 occupation class: 2511
related category: Category:Computer scientists by nationality

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Encyclopedic overview

A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science and technology.

Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on specific areas (such as algorithm and data structure development and design, software engineering, information theory, database theory, theoretical computer science, numerical analysis, programming language theory, compiler, computer graphics, computer vision, robotics, computer architecture, operating system), their foundation is the theoretical study of computing from which these other fields derive.

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