Is computer science actually a science?

>Machine Learning
>Data Mining
>'Big Data'
>search/graph algys

>they dont use empiricism
K, nice bait post OP

Lets not even get started on simulation software and graphics programming/anything using Monte Carlo methods/FEM

Without the microscope biology wouldntb e very far

Without a basic brunten the geologist wouldntb e very far

Without a telescope an astronomer wouldnt be very far

These are tools invented by inventors who may have also have been scientists. The inventions are not sciences themselves. Same with computers. Incredible tools but thats all they.

People in computer science are not scientists. They are technicians whose job is to make that tool more robust and more useful.