Computer security's primary background fields are computer science and computer engineering. These fields sometimes bring very different approaches to the same basic security problems. This installment of Secure Systems takes a lighthearted look at these differences.
Index Terms:
computer science, computer engineering, Shannon, Turing
Citation:
S.W. Smith, "Turing is from Mars, Shannon is from Venus: Computer Science and Computer Engineering," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 66-69, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MSP.2005.54