Today I was reading through Ovid's last Meditation about using different languages on PM and why it's a good thing to be exposed to different cultures and things like these.

While I was reading, I recalled one of the worst things I suffered during my years at the University: in my campus there were no other faculties except than the Computer Science department (I was in a small campus detached from the "alma mater"). I've always thought that having the possibility to talk with people with different backgrounds is very useful.

Specially being a computer scientist, I think that studying other disciplines brings more insights, more ideas, more good questions. Sometimes, new paradigms. For example, ideas "stolen" from biology brought to Genetic Algorithms. Cognitive sciences give ideas to the field of Artificial Intelligence.

But these are well-known examples. I'd like to know what other disciplines gave you good ideas to apply to Computer Science, specially to that strange art/science called computer programming.

In reply to Being exposed to other cultures by larsen

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