
34 | CHAPTER 3 Computer Science and the Foundation of Kno wledge Model
THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL FOR MANAGING
INFORMATION AND GENERATING KNOWLEDGE
Throughout history, various milestones have signaled discoveries, in-
ventions, or philosophic shifts that spurred a surge in knowledge and
understanding within the human race. The advent of the computer is
one such milestone, one that has sparked an intellectual metamor-
phosis whose boundaries have yet to be fully understood. Computer
technology has ushered in what has been called the “information
age,” an age when data, information, and knowledge are both accessi-
ble and able to be manipulated by more people ...