A reporter from the Chronicle of Higher Education covered the NSF Symposium about which I complained in Argh. Again., and you can read his story online – What’s So Super About Supercomputers, Anyway?

His story doesn’t answer the question, but it does get some computer scientists on record saying essentially that CS isn’t the be-all end-all some might have us think. “Computing is a means to an end.” Well said, Clas Jacobsen. Well, to many ends, maybe.