User:RM395/Course/Manypedia/Computer science

English - Japanese

Some of the dates actually differ when the articles discuss the history. The Japanese article says that until the 1920's people doing the processing were referred to as computers. The English article says that until the 1940's people doing the processing were referred to as computers. The Japanese article also mentions the punch card system, which was not mentioned at all in the English article. The Japanese article also mentions Alan Turing and the Turing machine which the English article does not mention at all. This might be because the English article mentions those things in a different article and the wikipedians editing didn't want to mention it all over again, they may have decided that the information belonged on the computer page, not the computer science page. The Japanese article has two major achievement section while the English section is just called major achievements, so it seems to be including more. Overall the English article just has a lot more information but the Japanese article does have a lot of similar links (such as links on different computer science topics like "Graph Theory").

I chose to do computer science because it is my major and is thus an interest of mine. I chose to compare it with Japanese because I know that they have their own unique style of cultural but are also fairly westernized and there are quite a few computer science related companies there (such as Nintendo).

I expected most of what I saw. The information is fairly hard to bias because computers work the same way around the world and computer science is a fairly concrete field. The most shocking thing was that their dates didn't match up; you think that this would have been checked cross languages.

--MartellRedViper (talk) 12:22, 25 March 2013 (UTC)