(ACM). The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) identifies for areas that it considers crucial to the discipline of computer science. Those four areas include: Programming Methodology and Languages, Theory of Computation, Computer Elements and Architecture, and Algorithms and Data Structures. Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB) identifies other fields such as computer networking and communication, database systems, artificial intelligence, and computer-human interaction. CSAB also identifies fields such as operating systems, parallel computation, computer graphics, software engineering, distributed computation, and numerical and symbolic computation as being important areas of computer science.