Different Computing System

In order to make the skills deeper the horizon of the knowledge need to be specified very thoroughly and computing discipline is maintaining that by categorizing in different context.  There are five major computing disciplines that diverted the computer specialist in different ways and those five disciplines are Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Cognitive Science and Computer Engineering. 

Computer Science is the mother of all disciplines. This is a theoretical part of computation that develops new ideas and design computing system according to the concept of computation.

Software Engineering is about process of making or developing software. The software designers think about the requirement of the software and then come up with the efficient qualified design. This discipline is more towards large scale system and project where it manages the large scale technological projects.

System function and system development are the two major functions of IS where it fills up the responsibility of managing IT services and also use in organizational processes. This discipline is more towards maintaining business organization in operational, tactical and strategic levels. Moreover it combines the business and technology together in order to improve both the business and technology.

Cognitive Science is about artificial intelligences that allow the computer smart to invent new process of replacing human afford. Robot in workplace is the result of cognitive science.

The last computing discipline is Computer Engineering which is more about hardware. It designs the physical part of the computer and interacts the software and hardware. Electrical Engineering and mathematics are very closely related to this computing field.

From the brief explanation given above we can differentiate the computing discipline based on some criteria such as handling organizational issues, application technologies, software technologies, System infrastructure, computer hardware and infrastructure. In term of practicality the criteria can be theoretical or applied.

Computer Science is more theoretical and it normally do not deal with organizational issues and computer hardware where software engineering is also quite similar, but it is more practical than CS.

On the other hand IT is more towards applied and it deals with al criteria except computer hardware. Information System is one of the crucial disciplines, that mainly deals with organizational issues. And CE mainly focuses on hardware and computer infrastructure.     

There is a cold conflict between IT and CS professionals. Normally CS students criticize the IT students telling that the knowledge is not deep and it more likely overall idea of everything. But on the other hand IT professional make more money than the CS professional as it related to business as well. However, my viewpoint is no matter what we learn the matter is how we apply it and how we bring out the benefit from learning. In that condition I like to say that CS professional might know deeper about computing system but it is IT professional who aplly them and who hire them for work in the company.

References:

proc.isecon.org/2010/pdf/1353.pdf

test.sigite.hosting.acm.org/wp-content/.../IT-Discipline-Summary.pdf

sprouts.aisnet.org/176/1/tr125-2.pdf