What is Computational Scientific Thinking?
As a basic researcher and educator, my values, goals, prejudices and measures of success differ from Computer Science Computational Thinking (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/) and so may be more accurately described as Computational Scientific Thinking (CST). In fact, as a consequence of contributing to the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop (research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/escience2008/) and of planning an honors seminar on the subject, I have gathered some thoughts on the subject. • Computational scientific thinking (CST) is using simulation and data processing to augment the scientific method’s search for the truth and for the realities hidden within data and revealed by abstractions • Computational scientific thinking (CST) is using simulation and data processing to augment the scientific method’s search for the truth and for the realities hidden within data and revealed by abstractions. • How simulation, visualization, data analysis and abstraction serve the scientific meth
